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

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 ...

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 ...

From the Science page of The Post-Standard: "During the years from 1758 to 1782 Charles Messier, a French astronomer (1730 - 1817), compiled a list of approximately 100 diffuse objects that were ...

Charles Messier (1730-1817) compiled his catalog of uncharted comet-like "nebulas" between 1758 and 1781. The French Academy of Sciences published the list for the benefit of the comet hunters ...

The Messier collection was initially compiled by renowned French astronomer Charles Messier, using his own observations and those of his associates to help fellow 18th century astronomers ...

This sparked the idea for the Messier Marathon, when astronomers attempt to see all 110 deep space objects in Charles’ Messier’s astronomy catalog in an astronomically-thrilling all-nighter.

Starting in the mid-1700s, Charles Messier cataloged more than 100 galaxies, nebulas, star clusters and other objects — and today, they remain popular skywatching targets. Ninety-three of the ...

Credit wikipedia Charles Messier, French astronomer, at the age of 40. This week on Looking Up we learn the whereabouts of Messier's missing galaxy.