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

There's so much more to see than the famous Messier Catalog. Here's a list of gorgeous NGC star clusters to observe on the ...

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.

Messier 87, or M87, is a big elliptical galaxy in the Virgo cluster, about 120,000 light-years wide. It’s famous for having a supermassive black hole, which was the first ever photographed in 2019.

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.

10 must-see pics from NASA Hubble’s Messier CatalogBetter known as the Crab Nebula, Messier 1 was originally mistaken for Halley’s Comet by Charles Messier, which led him to create his famous ...

French astronomer Charles Messier started his catalog in the 1750s as a way to help other astronomers avoid mistaking stationary objects like galaxies and nebulas for comets. He found the first ...

Messier 83: It is one of the closest and brightest barred spiral galaxies in the sky,and is visible with binoculars. Messier 101: It is a face-on, unbarred, and counterclockwise spiral galaxy ...

Euclid's image of Messier 78, a vibrant region of star formation shrouded by interstellar dust. (ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi) ...

Meanwhile, distant galaxies glimmer in the background of the image. The galaxy — also known as Messier 104, or M104 — is about 30 million light-years from Earth in the Virgo constellation.