How to Use spica in a Sentence
spica
noun-
Shortly after sunset, look low in the west-southwest to find dimming Mars to the left of bright blue-white Spica in Virgo.
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Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Spica, which appears as a dazzling blue-white star to the unaided eye, is in fact a binary star system composed of two massive stellar bodies that orbit one another with a separation of just 11 million miles (18 million kilometers).
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Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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