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 ...

The black hole lies at the centre of the featured spiral galaxy NGC 4258, or Messier 106, which is around 23 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is pictured gobbling ...

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, ...

Charles Messier also produced a catalog of over 100 prominent nebulae in 1781. Messier was interested in comets, so his list was a set of fuzzy objects that might be mistaken for comets.

Purgathofer-Weinberger 1, a faint planetary nebula about 1,300 light-years away, is the second-largest planetary nebula in ...

Hundreds of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been recorded as part of an enormous global effort so extensive it 'rivals the catalog of deep-sky objects created by Messier 250 years ago', astronomers say.

The Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered in 1773 by Charles Messier, who began a catalog of deep-sky objects, now known as the Messier Catalog. Local astronomer Max Byerly, who took this photograph ...

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.