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Spica The Star

By: Conor Haenni. Spica The Star. Spica in an HR Diagram. This is Spica in an HR Diagram. As you can see Spica is located three places from the middle for the brightness and its surface temperature 25,000 fahrenhieght. Spica’s Constellation and its Story.

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Spica The Star

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  1. By: Conor Haenni Spica The Star

  2. Spica in an HR Diagram This is Spica in an HR Diagram. As you can see Spica is located three places from the middle for the brightness and its surface temperature 25,000 fahrenhieght.

  3. Spica’s Constellation and its Story The Virgo constellation depicts Astraea, the virgin daughter of the god Zeus and the goddess Themis. Astraea was known as the goddess of justice, and was identified as this constellation due to the presence of the sexes of justice (Libra) nearby, and supposedly ruled the world with her wise ways until mankind became so callous that she returned to the skies, disgusted. Virgo is also identified with Persephone, daughter of Demeter (goddess of agriculture and guardian of marriage). Persephone was the goddess of innocence and purity, then later on became the Queen of the Underworld, when she was abruptly snatched away by Hades

  4. Spicas Size, Temperature, Color Distance from sun • about two nonillion kg or about 332,950 times the mass of the Earth or 1,048 times the mass of Juipiter • Spicas temperature is about 457. 490541 degrees fahrenhieght and the sun is 5778 kelvin red giant. • Spicas distance from the sun is 260 light years away • Spica is a blue giant the sun is yellow

  5. Spicas life Cycle • Spica is a star so it was born out of a large molecular cloud (whose density and size permits the formation of molecules)the joined the main sequence, after a short life it leaves the main sequence and it begins to grow in size and brightness, and a short trip back along the horizontal branch will follow before another rise and finally a Supernova leaving behind probably a Black Hole. When it dies it is in aging stage.

  6. Works cited • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spica • http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071205102931AAxGsVi • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Spica

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