You can find Spica by first looking up high in the north at the Big Dipper. Follow the arc of the Dipper’s “handle” in a long curve first to the star Arcturus, and then to Spica.

Spica is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and can be found about 250 light-years away from Earth in the Virgo constellation. Spica is actually not one star but two, what is known as a ...

Trundling along the ecliptic plane in Virgo, our satellite hangs near the bright star Spica in the evening sky.

Spica is 10 degrees south of it, and the landmark star Vindemiatrix (epsilon Virginis) is 10 degrees north. Train the telescope to the west of Epsilon Vir to locate galaxies first catalogued by ...

Later this evening, the Moon passes 0.9° due north of the Maiden’s alpha star, magnitude 1 Spica, at 11 P.M. EDT — and depending on your location you may see the Moon pass in front of the ...

A waning crescent moon will creep closer and closer to Spica until the star's light is extinguished in the blink of an eye on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 27.

Around 3200 B.C., the temple at Thebes was oriented to Spica, and in the second century B.C., Hipparchus used the star to discover the wobble of the Earth’s axis known today as precession.

On Saturday night, the Moon will occult, or pass in front of Spica, the brightest star in the constellation Virgo, blocking it from view for about an hour. You can see it disappear behind the ...

The occultation will be visible from Houston, beginning with the disappearance of Spica behind the moon at 4:53 a.m. CT in the eastern sky at an altitude of 14.4 degrees, according to In-The-Sky ...

Spica is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and can be found about 250 light-years away from Earth in the Virgo constellation. Spica is actually not one star but two, what is known as a ...