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3 days ago · Featuring the first 10 Messier Objects with their usual names and names in the NGC Catalogue.Part 1 of a series. Image Credits:- NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. ...
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2 days ago · M100 lies approximately 55 million light years from Earth, and occupies an area of 107,000 light years. M100 was discovered by Pierre Méchain on March 15, 1781, and Charles Messier determined the position for the object and added it to his catalogue on April 13, 1781, just before he completed the third and final edition.
2 days ago · To find those celestial objects, you'll generally need to know their Messier (M) or New General Catalogue (NGC) numbers, and you put them into a handheld controller that offers all the finesse of ...
1 day ago · I have the first edition and am wondering if its worth buying the second edition which is around £50-£60. The first edition is fabulous, but I don't want to spend this much unless the second edition is noticeably different and hasn't just been tinkered about a little with a few images changed.
4 days ago · It was originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged as Messier 31, M31, and NGC 224. Andromeda has a D 25 isophotal diameter of about 46.56 kiloparsecs (152,000 light-years) and is approximately 765 kpc (2.5 million light-years) from Earth.
5 days ago · Euclid has now unveiled 300,000 new objects in and around M78, including for the first time free-floating planets a few times heavier than Jupiter. Such starless worlds are one potential candidate ...
2 days ago · Stellarium Web is a planetarium running in your web browser. It shows a realistic star map, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
