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Messier 15 or M15 (also designated NGC 7078 and sometimes known as the Great Pegasus Cluster) is a globular cluster in the constellation Pegasus.It was discovered by Jean-Dominique Maraldi in 1746 and included in Charles Messier's catalogue of comet-like objects in 1764.
The Constellations are a series of 23 paintings on paper produced from January 1940 to September 1941 by the Spanish surrealist Joan Miró. Art historians and museum curators have said of the paintings: "Universally considered one of the greatest achievements of his career", [ 1 ] : 1 p.
Messier 2 or M2 (also designated NGC 7089) is a globular cluster in the constellation Aquarius, five degrees north of the star Beta Aquarii. It was discovered by Jean-Dominique Maraldi in 1746, and is one of the largest known globular clusters.
Arcturus is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Boötes.With an apparent visual magnitude of −0.05, [2] it is the fourth-brightest star in the night sky, and the brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere.
A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object. [1] The first constellations were likely defined in prehistory. People used them to relate stories of their beliefs, experiences, creation, and ...
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745–46.
Best visible at 21:00 (9 p.m.) during the month of April. Leo Minor is a small and faint constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere . Its name is Latin for "the smaller lion", in contrast to Leo , the larger lion.
The constellation Argo Navis as shown by Johannes Hevelius The ship in animated dark-to-lighter-to-dark sky and then illustrated with a stick-figure drawing. Argo Navis (the Ship Argo), or simply Argo, is one of Ptolemy's 48 constellations, now a grouping of three IAU constellations. It is formerly a single large constellation in the southern ...