The Messier catalog of deep sky objects was compiled by the comet hunter Charles Messier in the 18th century as a kind of list of "annoying things in the sky that are not comets", and includes many of ...
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The Star That Revealed Billions of Galaxies Hiding in Plain SightA century ago, Edwin Hubble unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that revolutionized humanity’s understanding of the cosmos. His identification of a faint star in the Andromeda Galaxy, known as V1, ...
For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Charles Messier also produced a catalog of over 100 prominent nebulae in 1781. Messier was interested in comets, ...
The Triangulum Galaxy, also informally known as the Pinwheel Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy 2.7 million light-years from Earth ...
M83 was discovered in 1752 by Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille during his expedition to the Cape of Good Hope, and later cataloged by Charles Messier in 1781. This excerpt shows some of the interesting ...
The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy, and Messier 33 (the 33rd entry in Charles Messier's catalog of fuzzy things in the sky). Also in the Local Group are a couple dozen dwarf galaxies.
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