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Hubble Has Discovered a Mysterious Star in the Milky Way, Dubbed the ‘Blue Lurker’, That’s Defying Stellar Evolution
To appreciate the significance of blue lurkers, we must revisit the history of the globular cluster M3 (also known as NGC 5272). Discovered in 1764 by French astronomer Charles Messier ...
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Numbers, please! 110 celestial objects in the Messier catalog
Messier found Halley's Comet on January 21 ... which he named M2 and M3. In 1764, he summarized 18 objects from his observations and 22 objects from other catalogs. In 1771, he succeeded Nicholas ...