Messier 32
Messier 32, abbreviated as M32, also known as Le Gentil, is a dwarf elliptical galaxy located in Andromeda constellation. Messier 32 was named after Guillaume Le Gentil, the French astronomer who discovered it in 1749….
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How Humanity Can Get To Mars Faster
With the 3 Mars missions launched in 2020 about to land on the red planet and companies such as SpaceX looking to land human colonists on the red planet in the future, it is worth…
Planetary Opposition In 2021
Every year, 4 planets go into opposition, which is Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus. At this time of the year, it is the best time to view each astronomical object. The season during which the…
Mars Perseverance How It Started Vs How It’s Going
Congrats to the entire NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover team on their successful launch! We took a few photos of the launch and wanted to share using the first photo that the rover took and posted…
Messier 31 Andromeda Galaxy
Messier 31, which is better known as the Andromeda Galaxy, is a large spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda. The Andromeda Galaxy was named after the area of the sky that it occupies, the…
Messier 30
Messier 30 may originate from one of Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, as it moves in a retrograde orbit through the galaxy’s inner halo. It was created more than 13 billion years ago. Like many other…
Best Visible Objects In Light Polluted Skies
As it has been nearly year of observing from home in COVID-19 quarantine, it would be a great idea to provide some information on some objects that one can view from home throughout the year….
Drones: To Mars And Beyond?
After talking with Jake Robins from the WeMartians Podcast to discuss the Mars 2020 mission, the idea of drones on other planets really caught our imagination and attention. Therefore, we spoke to Cristian B. Meza,…
Messier 29
Messier 29 is relatively small, occupying an area of 7 arc minutes in the sky, or a quarter the size of the full Moon. However, without the dust of the Milky Way obscuring the cluster,…
Messier 28
Messier 28 was the first globular cluster discovered to contain a milisecond pulsar, a pulsating, highly magnetized rotating neutron star emitting a beam of electromagnetic radiation with a rotational period between 1 and 10 miliseconds….