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Messier Monday: An Ancient Globular Cluster, M15
“When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.” -Mark Twain Welcome to yet another installment of Messier Monday, where each week, I’ll pick one of...
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Messier Monday: A Straggling Globular Cluster, M30
“The man’s a born straggler… another lucky exception to the rules of natural selection. A million years ago he would’ve been an easy snack for a saber-toothed tiger.” -Carl Hiaasen Welcome to the...
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Messier Monday: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, M13
“I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been,...
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Messier Monday: The Most Northern Galactic Globular, M53
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.” -Eleanora Duse Welcome to another Messier...
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Messier Monday: The Second Greatest Globular in Hercules, M92
“[T]he entire globe will soon be wrapped in a glowing envelope through which none of the magic of the Universe can be seen by the naked eye.” -George Eslinger Welcome to still another Messier Monday...
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Messier Monday: A Hyper-Smooth Globular Cluster, M5
“The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.” -Galileo Galilei Welcome back to another Messier Monday here on Starts With a Bang! With 110 deep-sky...
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Messier Monday: Messier’s First Globular Cluster, M2
“God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.” -Bill Watterson Welcome back to another Messier Monday, only here on Starts With...
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Messier Monday: A Very Unusual Globular Cluster, M71
“The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.” -Ezra Pound It’s time for another Messier Monday, where we profile one of the 110 deep-sky objects...
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Messier Monday: A Cluster Beyond Our Galaxy, M79
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” -Franz Kafka The night sky is our window into the Universe beyond the Solar System, and in some cases, even beyond our own galaxy! Perhaps...
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