SPICA

((Latin: Head of Grain), ) also called Alpha Virginis, brightest star in the zodiacal constellation Virgo and one of the 15 brightest in the entire sky, having an apparent visual magnitude of 0.96. It is a bluish star; spectroscopic examination reveals Spica to be a binary, with two components of the first and third magnitudes, respectively. Spica lies about 270 light-years from the Earth.