Abell 2151 – Hercules Galaxy Cluster Description: Abell 2151, the Hercules galaxy cluster, contains a few hundred galaxies about 500 million light years away from us. This cluster is itself part of a “supercluster” organized like a filament of...
IC 342 – The “Hidden” Galaxy Description: IC 342, the Hidden Galaxy is so called because despite being relatively close to us, it is obscured by clouds of gas and dust from our own galaxy because it is in the same plane. Otherwise, it would be much...
M 31 – The Andromeda Galaxy Description: M31 in the Messier Catalog is a spiral galaxy located 2.5 million light years from the Sun, in the constellation Andromeda. The Andromeda Galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way and the largest member of the...
M 33 – The Triangulum Galaxy Description: The Triangulum galaxy is part of the Local Group of galaxies with our Milky Way and about 80 others. In fact, this local group of galaxies contains 2 lobes including one in which is located our Milky Way and its...
M 51 – The Whirlpool Galaxy Description: M 51, the Whirlpool galaxy. One of the galaxies amateur astronomers love to photograph because it is relatively bright, large, colorful, and almost always visible near the tail of the Big Dipper. She’s 27 million...
