... Close to the Great Bear (Ursa Major) and surrounded by the stars of the Hunting Dogs (Canes Venatici), this celestial nebula was discovered in 1781 by the metric French astronomer Pierre Mechain. ... It's the International Space Station (ISS) docked with the Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-114. ... Unusual Gas Filaments Surround Galaxy NGC 1275 . ... Galaxy NGC 1275 is the central dominant galaxy of the Perseus Cluster of Galaxies, a cluster with many member galaxies visible in the above...