CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - “When I was a kid, my cousin showed me Saturn from a telescope when I was young and that got me hooked.” Tom Weber, the President of the Cedar Amateur Astronomers recalled.

The Pleiades star cluster, Messier 45, amid the faint and dusty nebulosity that surrounds it. The stars of the Pleiades are passing through the dust clouds in Taurus and are lighting them up as ...

The Messier marathon is an activity that’s been popular with astronomy clubs since the 1980s. It’s a test of endurance and skill to view each of the 109 deep-sky objects in French comet-hunter Charles ...

It has been several years since I looked up a phone number in a printed book. But a generation ago, a phone book was an essential tool for anyone with a telephone. It had the list of everyone by name ...

The third-largest constellation in the sky, Ursa Major, contains seven Messier objects. Five are galaxies. The least observed of these — based on the number of books and articles featuring it — is ...

On Oct. 13, 1773, a French astronomer named Charles Messier discovered the "whirlpool galaxy," also known as Messier 51, or ...

This star-studded image shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open star cluster in the southern constellation of Scutum (the Shield). Messier 11 is also known as the Wild Duck Cluster, as its brightest ...

BEIJING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 25, 2019 - This picture taken on September 25th, 2019 shows The Orion Nebula, also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976, in the Milky Way.- PHOTOGRAPH BY Costfoto / ...

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The “Messier marathon” prompts space hobbyists to spot 110 celestial objects in one night, and the best time to try it is in March Carlyn Kranking - Assistant Editor, Science and Innovation The ...

Back in the late 18th and early 19th centuries — long before anyone had any real idea of all that lay out there among the stars — a French astronomer spent his nights scouring the sky for his prey.

In fact, we got 98.18% of what we set out to get. On March 13, some friends and I got together in my backyard observatory with my 14-inch Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope to attempt the Messier ...