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Messier Monday: A Star Cluster on the Bubble, M52
Posted by Ethan on March 4, 2013 
“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will forever bubble up, if forever you dig.” -Marcus Aurelius Welcome back to yet another Messier Monday! Each week, we’re taking a look at one of the 110 fixed, deep-sky objects — not to be confused with comets — that made up Messier’s original catalogue.…
Messier Monday: The Most Northern Galactic Globular, M53
Posted by Ethan on February 18, 2013 
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.” -Eleanora Duse Welcome to another Messier Monday, where each week we take a look at one of the 110 deep-sky objects that make up the Messier…
Messier Monday: A Lost-and-Found Star Cluster, M48
Posted by Ethan on February 11, 2013 
“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.” -Marcel Proust Welcome to another Messier Monday, where each week we take an in-depth look at one of the 110 deep sky objects that make up the Messier Catalogue! Messier was not the first person to try and make an accurate, large catalog of deep sky objects,…
Messier Monday: The Gateway Galaxy to Virgo, M60
Posted by Ethan on February 4, 2013 
“The thing’s hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God—it’s full of stars!” -Dave Bowman, 2001: A Space Odyssey Back in October, we began a new, weekly series here called Messier Monday. Each Monday, we’ve taken a look at one of the 110 deep-sky objects that make up the Messier Catalogue, nebulous objects that might potentially be…
Messier Monday: The Owl Nebula, M97
Posted by Ethan on January 28, 2013 
“A wise old owl lived in an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he heard. Why can’t we all be like that wise old bird?” -The Immortal Poet Bromley To your naked eye, the night sky appears littered with thousands of individual points of light: the…
Messier Monday: The Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, M83
Posted by Ethan on January 21, 2013 
“Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it.” -Vaclav Havel But the spiral is more than a metaphor or a mathematical shape, it’s also the most common feature observed in the galaxies out there in the Universe. There are 27 spiral galaxies…
Messier Monday: A Great Galactic Controversy, M102
Posted by Ethan on December 17, 2012 
“Men… have had the vanity to pretend that the world creation was made for them, whilst in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.” -Camille Flammarion Welcome to the latest — and most controversial – Messier Monday, where each week, I’ll take a look at one of the 110 deep-sky objects that make up…
Messier Monday: A Reflection Nebula, M78
Posted by Ethan on December 10, 2012 
“My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.” -John Lennon Welcome to the latest edition of Messier Monday, where each week we…
Messier Monday: A Straggling Globular Cluster, M30
Posted by Ethan on November 26, 2012 
“The man’s a born straggler… another lucky exception to the rules of natural selection. A million years ago he would’ve been an easy snack for a saber-toothed tiger.” -Carl Hiaasen Welcome to the latest Messier Monday, where each week we take a look at one of Charles Messier’s original catalogue of 110 deep-sky objects that…
Messier Monday: Bode’s Galaxy, M81
Posted by Ethan on November 19, 2012 
“When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.” -Kalpana Chawla Welcome to this week’s Messier Monday, where I pick a new object out of the original catalogue of 110 “faint fuzzies” designed to help comet-hunters avoid…
