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I'm not an end of the world hype person. But I have been trying to do some research to debunk this "september 23rd" scare. I don't know much about the constellations, but can anyone tell me if this is the first, and only time we will ever see the Virgo aligned with Leo, while Virgo has Jupiter in her "womb"? And Leo has Venus, Mars and Mercury in it's vicinity making a "crown of 12 stars"?
I don't want to ask /x/. I want to ask people I assume are pretty savvy about astronomy and science.
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>but can anyone tell me if this is the first, and only time we will ever see the Virgo aligned with Leo
Right there you are already in trouble. Virgo and Leo are in the same relative positions they have always been in.
Beyond that, Jupiter makes an apparent trip around the Zodiac about every 12 years, nothing unusual about Jupiter passing through Virgo.
"The Crown of Twelve Stars" in Leo is arbitrary as fuck -- it just uses the nine brightest stars in Leo, which have in modern times defined the shape of the constellation (ancients included stars now considered in the separate constellation of Corona Berenice) but arbitrarily discounts at least two other stars visible to the naked eye in Leo, and the fact that one of the "stars," Iota Leonis, is actually a double-star.
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For those who saw the recent total eclipse, Regulus, in Leo, was the bright star just east of the sun.
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Thank you, my good sir. You are awesome.
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>>9153025
Astronomy, not even once.
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