And Saturn will still be hovering about 14 degrees to the upper right of Spica. The whole moon-star-planet array will now stretch across nearly 30 degrees, or about three "fists." ...

Because Saturn is the farthest planet from the sun visible to the naked eye, its movements in our sky are very slow. It has been in the constellation Virgo, close to Spica, for a couple of years now.

Among the brighter stars in the evening springtime sky is Spica. This blue-white star sines at first magnitude (+1.04), the 15th brightest star in Earth’s night sky.

Skywatchers in the U.S. will find the moon above the southwestern horizon an hour after sunset on June 5, with Spica twinkling a little over seven degrees to the left of the lunar disk. Remember ...

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Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, June 6The Moon passes 0.5° south of the magnitude 1.0 star Spica at 11 A.M. EDT. The pair hangs in the evening sky, located in the ...

The Moon and Spica hang close together as they set in the west in the early-morning hours of May 10. Credit: Alison Klesman (via TheSkyX) The Moon passes 0.4° south of Spica at 4 A.M. EDT.

Among the brighter stars in the evening springtime sky is Spica. This blue-white star shines at first magnitude (+1.04), the 15th brightest star in Earth’s night sky. Although not nearly as ...

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Spica is a bright, ... This is because the planet will be at 'opposition', meaning that, as Earth passes between the Sun and Jupiter, it will be opposite the Sun.

The Moon passes 0.5° south of the magnitude 1.0 star Spica at 11 A.M. EDT. The pair hangs in the evening sky, located in the south two hours after sunset. They are now some 6.3° apart, with the ...