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Hace 3 días · En 1774, el astrónomo francés Charles Messier compiló una lista completa de 110 objetos astronómicos conocida como Catálogo Messier. El enfoque principal de Messier era localizar cometas, pero encontró un desafío al tratar de diferenciar entre objetos difusos en el cielo y cometas reales usando los telescopios disponibles en su época.
Hace 2 días · Markarian's Chain is a stretch of galaxies that forms part of the Virgo Cluster. When viewed from Earth, the galaxies lie along a smoothly curved line. Charles Messier first discovered two of the galaxies, M84 and M86, in 1781. The other galaxies seen in the chain were discovered by William Herschel.
Hace 4 días · THIS WEEK IN HISTORY 6th May - 271 years ago, in 1753, Charles Messier makes his first documented observation; the Mercury transit of the Sun. 106 years ago, in 1918, the 72 inch Plaskett telescope at The Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Saanich, British Columbia sees first light.
Hace 2 días · M51- Whirlpool Galaxy Among the galaxies visible in the spring sky, few are as frequently photographed as the Whirlpool Galaxy. Discovered by Charles Messier in 1773 and later recognized for its spiral structure by William Parsons, it holds a significant place in astronomical lore. With a brightness of magnitude 8.7, it is observable with binoculars under dark skies, but a telescope provides ...
Hace 2 días · The Brussels Times. The life and death of Charles V, who ruled Europe’s greatest empire from Brussels. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was the most powerful man in Europe in the early 16th century, running a territory that sprawled across the continent and beyond, to the New World.
Hace 2 días · Messier 87 (also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, generally abbreviated to M87) is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo that contains several trillion stars. One of the largest and most massive galaxies in the local universe, it has a large population of globular clusters—about 15,000 compared with the 150–200 orbiting the Milky Way—and a jet of energetic plasma that ...
Hace 3 días · Messier 84 or M84, also known as NGC 4374, is a giant elliptical or lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo. Charles Messier discovered the object in 1781. It is in the heavily populated core of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, part of the local supercluster. This galaxy has morphological classification E1, denoting it has flattening of ...
