Sentences with phrase «nearby galaxy messier»
The spiral arms of the nearby galaxy Messier 81 are highlighted in this NASA Spitzer Space Telescope image.
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Another result from the study is that the jet structure in NGC 1275 significantly differs from the jet in the very nearby galaxy Messier 87, which is the only other jet whose structure has been imaged equally close to the black hole.
With clouds shrouding much of the sky, professor Steve Fossey decided to point the University's 14 - inch telescope at nearby galaxy Messier 82 (M82) and saw a very bright object that wasn't supposed to be there.
Not exact matches
The researchers note that galaxies of this earlier era are messier than the ones we see in the nearby universe.
Earlier this year, astronomers in London detected a spectacular, once - in - a-century supernova (dubbed SN2014J) in a relatively nearby galaxy known as Messier 82 (M82), or the Cigar Galaxy, 12 million light - years away.
The cataloging of nearby galaxies, or nebulae, as they were then known, started in the 18th century with the work of Messier.