Charles Messier

Charles Messier has been mentioned or cited more than a dozen times throughout all the RSS channels we monitor. Especially, the channel 'EarthSky' contains less than a dozen references to this person (or maybe different people with similar names) alone. As it’s displayed on the chart below, Charles Messier was highly popular in March, 2017.

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Hubble Zeroes in on Milky Way-like Galaxy Messier 96

[...] was first discovered by French astronomer Pierre Méchain on March 20, 1781, and added to Charles Messier’s catalogue of astronomical objects just four days later. It spans about 100,000 light-years [...]

Astropular
#2500

astropular.com

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A Sagittarius Triplet

[...] and the crowded starfields of the central Milky Way. In fact, 18th century cosmic tourist Charles Messier cataloged two of them; M8, the large nebula left of center, and colorful M20 on the right. [...]

interesting2me.com

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Today in history March 18

[...] injured in attack at Antwerp 1608: Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia. 1781: Charles Messier rediscovers global cluster M92 1793: The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of [...]

GEEBD
#1200

geebd.com

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M1: The Crab Nebula

M1: The Crab Nebula

[...] The Crab Nebula is cataloged as M1, the first object on Charles Messier’s famous 18th century list of things which are not comets. In fact, the Crab is now known to [...]

interesting2me.com

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