Virgo

Binoculars will help, but please put them away before the sun comes up.

Then Venus slides past the star Spica, the brightest in Virgo, coming within about 1.2 degrees on the mornings of the 9th and 10th.

Again, it's low, so you'll need a clear eastern view.

And a reminder of our standing rule, never look at the sun and never point binoculars or a telescope anywhere near it without proper protection.

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so these constellations are away from the dense star fields of the milky way so give us this view into sort of deep intergalactic space so they're featuring some excellent galaxies and a striking planetary nebula So then they do, they get, because everyone thinks of galaxy season as being kind of more like the spring, isn't it? It's always like, oh, it's Leo and Virgo and it's the supercluster.

And actually, Cetus and Pisces are packed for the galaxies.

Yeah.

On the morning of the 7th, a 3% crescent moon sits about 4 degrees from it.

And around the 10th, Venus passes just over a degree from Spica, the brightest star in Virgo.

That's a low twilight event.

At civil dawn, Venus is around 12 degrees up from Los Angeles and New York, 9 from London, and only 8 to 10 from Sydney.

So they're featuring some excellent galaxies and a striking planetary nebula.

So then they do, they get, because everyone thinks of galaxy season as being kind of more like the spring, isn't it? It's always like, oh, it's Leo and Virgo and it's the supercluster.

And actually, Cetus and Pisces are packed for the galaxies.

Yeah.

Let me show you.

You see how he's pointing right here? Because after Leo is Virgo, the woman, this is a woman right here.

And he's pointing at her Adam's apple because he's showing you that he doesn't have one.

Then you have Jesus right here.

Vagina room.

Yeah.

Mother Mary is Virgo the Virgin, the holy vagina that was worshipped.

In fact, I posted this exact picture right here on Facebook a few months back, and I got banned from going live or joining groups because their bot flagged this as porn.

Many of the constellations we know are named after characters from Greek mythology, like Pegasus, the winged flying horse that was born from Medusa's blood and was said to fetch lightning bolts for Zeus.

Or take the constellation of Virgo, which appears in the northern hemisphere each spring.

Virgo is often said to represent Persephone, the Greek goddess of spring, who was tricked into spending six months of her year with Hades, the god of the underworld.

During this time, her mother Demeter, who was the goddess of harvest and agriculture, would go into mourning until the following spring, when Persephone and the constellation of Virgo return.

So that's the myth the ancient Greeks used to explain the arrival of winter.

The 88 constellations astronomers recognize today were officially named in 1922, but 48 of those were written down in the second century by a guy named Claudius Ptolemy.

so we're lucky in the sense that we have one Sagittarius A star that we felt for sure we could image.

And then there was another one, M87, which is in the constellation Virgo.

And that black hole is about 6 billion times what our sun weighs.

But it's 55 million light years away.