Charles Messier was an 18th century comet hunter who compiled a list of nebulae and star clusters – objects that could be mistaken for comets in a small telescope. His ...

This nebula bore such a resemblance to a comet ... His mentor Delisle had miscalculated the orbital data. All 110 objects in the Messier catalog in one image, taken by amateur astronomer Michael ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recorded breath-taking new images of the iconic Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57. The images ... the Ring Nebula is a well-known object that is ...

For the first time, scientists have pulled back the curtain on the Messier 78 nebula, a region where stars ... “Dark matter, as we all know, is so mysterious, and it’s invisible.