In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The Messier catalog, popular with amateur astronomers, was actually just a by-product of comet hunting. The aim was to avoid ...

Some welcome breaks in the cold lately have made it feel like spring is just around the corner. I was shocked to see a ...

For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Charles Messier also produced a catalog of over 100 prominent nebulae in 1781. Messier was interested in ...

Although the galaxy bears the name of the renowned 18th century astronomer Charles Messier, it was actually never observed by ...

During this period, he cataloged 10,000 stars and identified 42 nebulae, including Messier 83, which he discovered in 1752 during an expedition to the Cape of Good Hope. In 1781, Charles Messier ...

The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy, and Messier 33 (the 33rd entry in Charles Messier's catalog of fuzzy things in the sky). Also in the Local Group are a couple dozen dwarf galaxies.

The public is invited to a Door Peninsula Astronomical Society (DPAS) meeting on March 11, 7 pm. DPAS Board Member Jim Gallt ...

March is the Time for Galaxy Quest Every year, March signals the time for astronomers and astro-photographers to bring out ...