The Silver Dollar or Sculptor Galaxy is the brightest deep-sky object within the diminutive constellation Sculptor. NGC 253 is very…
Stephan’s Quintet, one of the first science targets of the James Webb Space Telescope, sits just 0.5° southwest of NGC…
Like its companion, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a exceptional spectacle loved by Southern…
Charles Messier first famous the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (M24) on June 20, 1764. He subsequently recalled it as a…
Observers love looking at distant objects — and the farther, the better. Well, how about an object that’s more than…
The constellation Coma Berenices (pronounced KOE-muh-bear-uh-NYE-seez), Berenice’s Hair, was envisioned in its current form by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator. To…
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