Friday, September 16, 2011

How many stars are in the constellation "Virgo?"?

I am doing a project in Science and I need to know how many stars are in the constellation Virgo...this has nothing to do with astrology, but it does with astronomy. I have already looked on all the websites I could find and in the books in the classroom! Please Help.....thnx!! %26lt;3|||Now these are top contributor answers (I may be one some day LOL)


All these answers are correct have fun picking the "right one". For a quick reference on the main bright ones (naked eye??) download Stellarium. Reminds me of my planetarium days.|||You'll never find an answer to this question; the teachers who assign this should be fired! How many stars there are in a constellation depends on how bright the stars are that you're going to count. I used to live in a city with 6 million people and severe light pollution. I could see exactly _one_ star in Virgo, Spica. Now I live in the country, and, with my naked eye, I can see a few dozen stars in Virgo. With my telescope, I have seen 68 galaxies in Virgo, and each galaxy contains about a trillion stars...that's 68 trillion stars!|||You already looked on wikipedia?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo_(cons鈥?/a>





You already looked on allthesky?


http://www.allthesky.com/constellations/鈥?/a>





You already looked on the IAU site?


http://www.iau.org/public_press/themes/c鈥?/a>





You already looked on the astro site?


http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constel鈥?/a>

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