Astronomy - USA (2022-01)

101 SKY OBJECTS WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 21 29 M104 Dust is a common component of spiral galaxies. Astronomers believe this dust is car ...

22 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2022 31 M101 While the name Pinwheel Galaxy can refer to M33 in Triangulum and other open spirals, it is ...

101 SKY OBJECTS WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 23 34 M109 The third-largest constellation in the sky, Ursa Major, contains seven Messier obje ...

36 M86 M86 is a 9th-magnitude elliptical/lenticular galaxy at the core of the Virgo Cluster, lying only 17' from M84 (see #35). ...

NGC 7000 looks as big as a continent — the continent of North America, to be exact. This emission nebula lies near Deneb in the ...

DON GOLDMAN DOUGLAS J. STRUBLE 26 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2022 41 M106 The challenges of observing spiral structure in galaxies are ...

While most planetary nebulae are small and beautiful, there is no doubt that the Dumbbell Nebula (M27) is something special. Fou ...

44 M37 While Charles Messier found M37 (along with M36) on Sept. 2, 1764, he wasn’t the first to discover this cluster. Giovanni ...

101 SKY OBJECTS WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 29 46 California Nebula Today’s brightly lit cities aren’t usually the places where new deep-s ...

49 47 Tucanae Johann Elbert Bode logged this particular object 47th (in order of right ascension) in the Toucan in his 1801 cata ...

101 SKY OBJECTS 50 The Small Sagittarius Star Cloud Charles Messier first noted the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (M24) on June 2 ...

Visible to the naked eye Visible with binoculars Visible with a telescope 10° Jan. 3, 30 minutes after sunset Looking southwest ...

10° Jan. 3, 4 A.M. Looking northeast Radiant CORONA BOREALIS BOÖTES DRACO CYGNUS HERCULES Deneb Vega LY R A Rasalgethi Alphecca ...

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30" Io Jupiter Ganymede Callisto Jan. 12, 8 P.M. EST S W 4° E Path of Comet Borrelly Jan. 1 5 10 15 20 25 (^30) PISCES CETUS Dip ...

Path of Ceres Jan. 1 10 TAURUS^3020 N E 2° Aldebaran Hyades ω η M45 κ ε NGC 1647 τ ρ π γ δ θ (^1413) 1° N E Path of Mars 28 23 J ...

40 ASTRONOMY • JANUARY 2022 52 Cygnus X-1 A black hole on a list of the best deep-sky targets? That sounds like an oxymoron! But ...