... These objects were discovered in the 18th century and were catalogued so that eyeball observers using small telescopes would not confuse them with comets. ...
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... The discovery of `nebula', fuzzy objects in the sky that were not planets, comets or stars, is attributed to Charles Messier in the late 1700's. His collection of 103 ...
... Gas streaming off the comet nucleus forms the ion tail of the comet which points directly away from the sun due to interaction with the solar wind. ...
... By measuring the parallax for the comet, he was able to show that the comet was further away than the Moon. ... comets represented an obvious change in a celestial sphere that was supposed to be unchanging; furthermore, it was very ...
... comet near the border between the southern constellations of Hydra (The Water-Snake ... Comet Hyakutake obviously comes from far away, maybe even from the very distant ...
... Mr. Messier reported it on the Chart of the Comet of 1763 - Mem. ... The royal comet hunter of King Louis XVth was not, nevertheless, the first mortal to ... mira variable Chi Cygni, as well as the discovery of the spectacular Comet of 1680 ...