Category: Astronomy

This was taken a few years ago but is still my best shot of this beautiful planet.

The Messier objects are a set of 110 astronomical objects catalogued by the French astronomer Charles Messier. Messier was interested only in finding comets so he created a list of those non-comet objects that frustrated his hunt for them. This list, which Messier created in collaboration with his assistant Pierre Méchain, is now known as the Messier catalogue and is one of the…