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Messier Monday: The Methuselah of Messier Objects, M56
“There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.” -Sophocles Imagine looking up at the...
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Messier Monday: A double-ringed mystery galaxy, M94
“We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.” -Robert Frost It’s time again for another Messier Monday! To kick off each week, we’ve been taking a look at one of...
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Messier Monday: The Wild Duck Cluster, M11
“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.” -Hans Christian Anderson Welcome back for another Messier Monday! There are 110 deep-sky objects in the Messier...
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Messier Monday: The Most Concentrated Messier Globular, M75
“I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day’s hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of...
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Messier Monday: The Farthest Messier Spiral, M109
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” -Joseph Campbell It took Charles Messier and his assistant, Pierre Méchain, a...
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Messier Monday: The Pinwheel Galaxy, M101
“I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.” -Voltaire Every object that we look at for Messier Monday has its own flavor, its own qualities, and its own unique characteristics. By far the...
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Messier Monday: A Cluster Beyond Our Galaxy, M79
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” -Franz Kafka The night sky is our window into the Universe beyond the Solar System, and in some cases, even beyond our own galaxy! Perhaps...
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Messier Monday: A Big, Blue, Bright Baby Cluster, M47
“Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.” -Maria Mitchell It’s time again for Messier Monday, where we highlight the various wonderous deep-sky objects...
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Messier Monday: A Galactic Highlight to Ring in the New Year, M96
“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.”...
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Messier Monday: The Black Eye Galaxy, M64 (Synopsis)
“Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you’ll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!” -Harry Truman, to a music critic who panned his daughter’s...
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