Virgo

About Virgo

The Maiden. The largest constellation of the zodiac and second largest overall. Spica is the brightest star, a close binary of two massive blue stars. The Virgo Cluster contains over 1,300 galaxies about 54 million light-years away. M87 contains the first imaged black hole, photographed by the Event Horizon Telescope in 2019. The Virgo Supercluster, which includes our Local Group, spans 110 million light-years.