Of all the constellations we see through the year, Virgo the Virgin is the second-largest. The only problem is that it’s also one of the faintest. With a lot of visual digging, Virgo can be ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first image release includes a 'staggering' view of 10 million galaxies in and around the ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

Admittedly, Virgo is not a constellation for beginners. It is a real challenge, although this week offers a better chance of spotting it because there is hardly any moonlight in the early evening sky.

In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in ...

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

Sweeping views of nebulae and dancing galaxies prove the telescope’s enormous field of view and ultra-high-res capabilities.

A stunning nebula and a sky dotted full of stars and dancing galaxies are in a set of three images released by the Vera C.

Astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Rubin Observatory — and registered hundreds of its first ...

There are twelve constellations of the zodiac and Virgo is the largest of them. In fact, it's the second-largest constellation in the sky. Virgo means "virgin" or "maiden" in Latin.

The world has gotten an early preview of the Rubin Observatory's first images, which include stunning snaps of spiraling ...

With the naked eye, look high to Virgo’s northern border near Constellation Coma Berenices to find 70 Virginis at magnitude 4.97. This 7.9 billion year old binary has an exoplanet with a mass of ...