A set of books belonging to Charles Messier have joined the collection of David J. Eicher, offering a rare link to the comet ...

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A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda ...

With roots going all the way back to the 1870s, Revere Beach is not only the oldest public beach in Massachusetts, but in the whole country. Here's a brief history of the state's oldest beach, as well ...

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

Pierre Méchain, a French astronomer and colleague of Charles Messier, discovered M72 in 1780. It was the first of five star clusters that Méchain would discover while assisting Messier. It was ...

NASA has released an incredibly beautiful image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77.

This is M88, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices. M88 has a visual magnitude of +9.4 and is 65 million light years away from us. It was discovered in 1781 by Charles Messier, using a ...

During the 18th century, astronomer and comet hunter Charles Messier wanted to distinguish the ‘faint fuzzies’ he observed from any potential new comets. As a result, Messier cataloged 110 objects in ...

The Messier catalog is a summary of various astronomical objects. It was first published in 1774 by the French astronomer Charles Messier with 45 objects. It now includes 110 celestial objects: 40 ...

I took this picture of it on February 24. M51 (the large galaxy in the center) was discovered by Charles Messier in 1773. He referred to it as “a very faint nebula, without stars.” Eight years later, ...