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  1. TOPIC> THE Messier Catalog

    2026 May 14

    Messier Catalog at Uniform Scale
    * Image Credit: Sylvain Villet
    app.astrobin.com/u/SylvainV
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    * Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
    science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sci/bio/

    Explanation:
    What are some of the most interesting astronomical objects you can see in the night sky, armed with a good pair of binoculars or a small telescope? If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you can look for the very popular objects in the Messier Catalog (most of them, but not all, are also visible from the Southern half of the Earth). The featured image shows all 110 objects in the catalog, shown at uniform scale. Charles Messier created the catalog in the 18th Century. He was interested in comets, and his catalog was a list of known comet-like "objects to avoid" in the sky when observing or hunting for comets. The deep sky objects in the catalog include a supernova remnant (the Crab Nebula, M1), other galaxies (such as Andromeda, M31), nebulae (e.g. the Orion Nebula, M42, a star forming region) and stellar clusters (such as the Pleiades, M45, a bright young open cluster).
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000311.ht
    !!!explore> science.nasa.gov/specials/apps
    app.astrobin.com/u/SylvainV?i=
    science.nasa.gov/people/explor
    coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/pa
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-sky
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernov
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    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251115.ht
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250420.ht
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260223.ht
    esahubble.org/wordbank/open-cl

    apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260514.ht

    #space #messier #astrophotography #photography #science #nature #physics #NASA #ESA #apod

  2. Stars, constellations, distance and signals. Too much of everything and yet it's mostly silent. Drifting through the night, motionless.

    messiercatalogue.bandcamp.com/…

    #bandcamp #space ambient #vaporwave #messier #music for nights

  3. Stars, constellations, distance and signals. Too much of everything and yet it's mostly silent. Drifting through the night, motionless.

    messiercatalogue.bandcamp.com/…

    #bandcamp #space ambient #vaporwave #messier #music for nights