Check out the 8 images of many objects in the Messier shared by NASA
8th March 2025
- Anusha Jain
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It is visible in the constellation Taurus, 6,500 light-years from Earth, and has an apparent magnitude of 8.4.
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This amazing Hubble view, which looks deep into M1, shows the rapidly spinning pulsar in the center of the nebula, which is its beating heart.
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M2, the first globular cluster to be added to the Messier catalog, is situated in the constellation Aquarius, around 37,000 light-years away from Earth.
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M2, the first globular cluster to be added to the Messier catalog, is situated in the constellation Aquarius, around 37,000 light-years away from Earth.
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Located 5,200 light-years from Earth, M8 is home to its own star cluster
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Herschel 36 is the brilliant star close to the image's center. The main source of ionizing radiation in M8 is this bright star.
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7. M8 (Infrared-light View)
About 200,000 times brighter than our Sun is Herschel 36, the bright star close to the center of the image.
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M27 hosts many knots of gas and dust.
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