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Virgo

[vur-goh] / ˈvɜr goʊ /


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M88 is part of the Virgo Cluster, a vast collection of more than a thousand galaxies bound together by gravity.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026

The signs attributed to each profile were Virgo, Leo, and Libra.

From Slate ● May 5, 2026

“The Virgo announcement provides further confirmation that the hyperscaler capex cycle driving ANET’s AI networking growth is not slowing and if anything it is accelerating in both scale and architectural complexity,” they added.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

Even if they would, they’d have requests or changes, but I’m impatient and a Virgo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

The Virgo cluster is already the richest collection of galaxies known, replete with spirals and ellipticals and irregulars, a jewel box in the sky.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

On cue, Jackson began listing all the Virgos in his life, including his mom, his brother, his best friend and his grandma.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2023

“We’re both Virgos, so we are both incredibly organized people,” Kucserka says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

And so it’s not so much who I am, but I love being able to lean on all those facts about Virgos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2023

Conversations about planetary transits and memes about what Virgos may be apt to do when presented with conflict are everywhere on Instagram and Twitter.

From The Verge ● Oct. 4, 2019

But now there’s more room for … uh, posts about Virgos, I guess.

From The Verge ● Dec. 4, 2018

The weaker “Lamentatio Virginis in Depositione” by Alessandro Della Ciaia foundered a bit in its long verses, as the soprano soloist’s intonation sagged slightly, but the double-chorus of angels kept things exciting.

From Washington Post

The magnetic field of remote 78 Virginis just about proved what theorizing had already predicted: it was closely proportionate to the magnetic fields of the earth and sun.

From Time Magazine Archive

The planet around 70 Virginis is also problematic: its orbit is egg-shaped rather than circular, which suggests to some astronomers that it formed more like a star than like a planet.

From Time Magazine Archive

The stars they orbit--70 Virginis in the constellation Virgo and 47 Ursae Majoris in the Great Bear--are each about 35 light-years away.

From Time Magazine Archive

To this point the intellectual culture of the fifteenth century had brought the plastic arts of Italy, by a process similar to that which ended in the "Partus Virginis" of Sannazzaro.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds




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