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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - “When I was a kid, my cousin showed me Saturn from a telescope when I was young and that got me hooked.” Tom Weber, the President of the Cedar Amateur Astronomers recalled.

The Messier marathon is an activity that’s been popular with astronomy clubs since the 1980s. It’s a test of endurance and skill to view each of the 109 deep-sky objects in French comet-hunter Charles ...

The article critiques the common recommendation of starting amateur astronomy with the Messier catalog, arguing that many Messier objects are low surface brightness and difficult for beginners to ...

Hubble observations of ‘Cloud-9’ with gas-rich body near Messier 94 offer rare evidence for studying galaxy formation, ...

Astronomers have captured the universe's first confirmed failed galaxy, a starless expanse of dark matter dubbed Cloud-9, ...

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Messier 18 was discovered and catalogued in 1764 by Charles Messier — for whom the Messier Objects are named — during his search for comet-like objects. It lies within the Milky Way, approximately ...

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