Thursday, March 15, 2018

Cataloging the Galactic Zoo



Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day focuses on humanity's need to make lists. Astronomers have long worked at cataloging the sky and here we see the initial efforts of Charles Messier (who was actually listing things that were not comets) to the New General Catalog and Index Catalog (J.L.E. Dreyer) and beyond.

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