Dr. Harry J. Augensen's Night Words
Jupiter leaves the evening; Mercury, Saturn, Mars up at dawn
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Jupiter leaves the evening; Mercury, Saturn, Mars up at dawn
Virgo, (Latin: “Virgin”) in astronomy, zodiacal constellation lying in the southern sky between Leo and Libra, at about 13 hours right ascension and 2° south declination. The constellation’s brightest star, Spica (Latin for “head of grain,” also called Alpha Virginis), is the 15th brightest star in the sky, with a magnitude of 1.04. Virgo contains the nearest large cluster of galaxies, the Virgo cluster, in which is located the giant elliptical galaxy Virgo A and PSR 1257+12, the pulsar around which the first extrasolar planets were discovered in 1992. In astrology, Virgo is the si...
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