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How big is Spica?

Updated: 4/28/2022
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Spica (Alpha Virginis) is the brightest star in the constellation Virgo.

It is in fact a close binary star system so it is impossible to resolve individual stars through a telescope.

It is approximately 7.4 times larger than our Sun. So it has a radius of about 5,150,400 km

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