With the New Moon arriving tomorrow, amateur astronomers from around the world are getting ready for the annual Messier marathon. During the event, observers will attempt to spot as many objects from ...

Anyone spotting a globular star cluster like M13 for the first time through an amateur telescope will recognize a fascinating white spot, which at first glance could also be a comet without a ...

Photographer Alan Dyer observes the star clusters Messier 7 and Messier 6 near the horizon above Montana’s Sweetgrass Hills—two of the deep-sky objects included in the Messier Marathon. Alan Dyer, ...

En astronomie, le catalogue Messier est un catalogue astronomique d'objets d'aspect diffus créé en 1774 par Charles Messier afin d'aider les chercheurs de comètes à ne pas confondre celles-ci avec ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. French astronomer Charles Messier did not intend to be remembered for his discoveries of galaxies, nebulae, and stars clusters ...

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.

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 ...

In a nod to the global amateur astronomy community, as well as to any space enthusiast who enjoys the beauty of the cosmos, the Hubble Space Telescope mission is releasing its version of the popular ...

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, amateur astronomers had 12 new objects to observe during the annual Messier Marathon held March 17 and 18. The challenge is often scheduled around a new moon in ...