Messier 33, a wonderful cosmic pinwheel
Messier 33 (NGC 598), also known as the Triangle’s Galaxy because of the constellation hosting it, was discovered by John the Baptist Hodierna in 1654 and it is about 2.9 million light years from...
Messier 33 (NGC 598), also known as the Triangle’s Galaxy because of the constellation hosting it, was discovered by John the Baptist Hodierna in 1654 and it is about 2.9 million light years from...
A few days before the end of the year, on 27.9 Dec. 2015 E. Conseil reported the discovery of an optical transient, likely a nova, in the stunning Messier 33 spiral galaxy, the “Triangulum galaxy”...
M33 is a relatively close (with a distance of 3 millions of light years) spiral galaxy, nicknamed “Pinwheel Galaxy”. Under perfetc sky condititgions, it can be seen with the naked eye. Likely, it was...