BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

Spica

DOUBLE STAR · the ear of wheat
Spica
AI illustration of the real object
DISTANCE about 250 light yearsACTUALLY two hot stars almost touching

The brilliant blue white jewel of the constellation Virgo, whose name means ear of wheat. Spica is really two very hot stars orbiting each other so closely that their gravity stretches both into egg shapes; they complete a full orbit in just four days. Together they shine over ten thousand times brighter than the Sun.

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