Many of the best-loved galaxies in the cosmos are remarkably large, close, massive, bright, or beautiful, often with an unusual or intriguing structure or history. However, it takes all kinds to make ...

Amateur astronomers dubbed this object M110 in the 1960s, so we choose not to include it. Charles Messier’s list stops at 103 objects. Historically, that should be the last word, but it would be hard ...

For one brief stretch each spring, amateur astronomers attempt one of backyard astronomy’s most ambitious challenges: spotting an entire catalog of deep-sky objects in a single night. Known as the ...

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As backyard observers may know, some modest telescopes lack the optics or aperture to cleanly resolve deep-sky objects like nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies. This leads to fuzzy images, often ...

This is a milestone column for me, as it is the 10th anniversary of my first What’s Up in Durango Skies. I always try to come up with some new astronomical topic to discuss, but there is also the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photographer Alan Dyer observes the star clusters Messier 7 and Messier 6 near the horizon above Montana’s Sweetgrass Hills—two of ...