Charles Messier scanned the heavens in search of new comets, hoping that these would lead him to fame and fortune. To discover a comet, ...

In 1781, French astronomer Charles Messier published a catalog of 103 objects in the heavens. He was primarily interested in comets, but kept finding fuzzy smudges that did not move against the ...

Foreshadowing the great reflecting telescopes of the last century and a half, Lord Rosse managed in 1845 to erect a mighty ...

Charles Messier began cataloguing the "Messier" or "M" objects when he first detected a misty cloud of light on the night of 12 September 1758.

The scavenger hunt is not yet complete—the Hubble Messier Catalog currently exhibits images of 84 of the 110 Messier objects and plots them on an interactive map—but that’s partly because of ...

Charles Messier was born on June 26, 1730, in Badonviller, France, the son of an administrative official. Little Charles was the tenth of twelve children to be born.

In 1758, Charles Messier, ... There were a few astronomers spread across the United States that just decided that they wanted to try and see all 110 Messier objects in the same night and, ...

French astronomer Charles Messier was born on June 26, 1730. Messier published the Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters. A ...

The famed French observer Charles Messier was so impressed with this object that he included it as the 11th entry in his legendary Messier Catalog in 1764.

Charles Messier was born in Badonviller, France, on June 26, 1730, the 10th child of court bailiff Nicolas and his wife Françoise. His childhood interest in astronomy was stoked by Comet ...