This cluster was discovered in 1702 by a german astronomer Gottfried Kirch when he was looking for a comet. Charles Messier noted it as a hazy spot, being not ...
www.eyesonthesky.com Globular clusters populate the gravitational area in and around the central regions of galaxies. Observers from Earth can see many of ...
Stellar 'Eggs' Emerge from Molecular Cloud This eerie, dark structure, resembling an imaginary sea serpent's head, is a column of cool molecular hydrogen gas ...
The CoRoT satellite, operated by the French space agency CNES, has discovered a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a star similar to the Sun in the constellation ...