I’d like to introduce you to an interesting galaxy today. The reason it’s interesting is because it’s surprising, and in a way that caught me off guard. It’s called M98 (or NGC 4192; every object in ...
This week’s first small-telescope target is a pair of elliptical galaxies in Virgo the Maiden, M84 and M86. French comet-hunter Charles Messier discovered them March 18, 1781 — only five days after ...