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Messier Monday: A Hyper-Smooth Globular Cluster, M5
Posted by Ethan on May 20, 2013 
“The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.” -Galileo Galilei Welcome back to another Messier Monday here on Starts With a Bang! With 110 deep-sky objects making it up, the Messier Catalogue is the first comprehensive, accurate catalogue of faint (but not too faint) fixtures in the night sky. Each object…
Messier Monday: The Cigar Galaxy, M82
Posted by Ethan on May 13, 2013 
“How is it they live for eons in such harmony - the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their mind against someone they know?” -Thomas Aquinas Welcome back to another Messier Monday here on Starts With a Bang! Each Monday, we take an in-depth look at one of the 110 deep-sky wonders —…
Messier Monday: The Youngest Star-Forming Region, The Trifid Nebula, M20
Posted by Ethan on May 6, 2013 
“Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?” -Lord Byron Welcome back to another Messier Monday here on Starts With a Bang! Messier’s…
Messier Monday: The Second Greatest Globular in Hercules, M92
Posted by Ethan on April 22, 2013 
“[T]he entire globe will soon be wrapped in a glowing envelope through which none of the magic of the Universe can be seen by the naked eye.” -George Eslinger Welcome to still another Messier Monday here on Starts With A Bang! Each Monday, we highlight a different one of the 110 deep-sky objects that make up the Messier…
Messier Monday: The Whirlpool Galaxy, M51
Posted by Ethan on April 15, 2013 
“Upon one occasion, while engaged upon a seven-foot mirror, he did not remove his hands from it for 16 hours together.” -from Caroline Herschel’s obituary Welcome to another Messier Monday here on Starts With A Bang! Each Monday, we highlight a different one of the 110 deep-sky objects that Messier catalogued so that comet-hunters wouldn’t confuse these permanent…
Messier Monday: A Dusty Open Cluster for Everyone, M25
Posted by Ethan on April 8, 2013 
“The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.” -Henry David Thoreau Welcome to another Messier Monday here on Starts With A Bang! Each week, we take a look at the…
Messier Monday: Messier’s Greatest Mistake, M40
Posted by Ethan on April 1, 2013 
“It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.” -Dale Turner This April Fools’ day, even though the rest of the internet revels…
Messier Monday: The First Messier Supernova of 2013, M65
Posted by Ethan on March 25, 2013 
“I wouldn’t dream of working on something that didn’t make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.” -Kate Winslet Welcome back for another Messier Monday! At the start of each week, we take a detailed look at one of the 110 deep-sky objects that make up the Messier Catalogue. This week, we’ve got…
Messier Monday: A Diffuse, Distant Globular at the End-of-the-Marathon, M72
Posted by Ethan on March 18, 2013 
“Every star may be a sun to someone.” -Carl Sagan Welcome back to yet another Messier Monday! Each week, we highlight one of the 110 deep-sky objects that make up the Messier catalogue: Charles Messier’s legacy to comet-hunters and amateur astronomers, pointing out some of the most easily visible deep-sky objects as seen from our…
Messier Monday: The Phantom Galaxy at the Beginning-of-the-Marathon, M74
Posted by Ethan on March 11, 2013 
“When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.” -Haile Gebrselassie Welcome to a very special Messier Monday, which just happens to be the twenty-first consecutive week we’ve taken a look at one of the 110 fixed, deep-sky objects that Messier and his collaborators…
