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 ...

He believed that the nebulae were objects within the Milky Way. Charles Messier also produced a catalog of over 100 prominent nebulae in 1781. Messier was interested in comets, so his list was a ...

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

Messier 1 better known as the Crab Nebula, Charles Messier originally mistook Messier 1 for Halley’s Comet, which inspired him to create his famous catalog of objects.

The Whirlpool Galaxy, M51 is one of my favorites. I took this picture of it on February 24. M51 (the large galaxy in the center) was discovered by Charles Messier in 1773. He referred to it as “a very ...

The Vernal Equinox occurs on Saturday, March 22 to begin spring in the northern hemisphere. Days and nights will be equally ...

The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...