Hubble's Messier Marathon Madness

  • Released Friday, March 16, 2018
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In mid-March, skywatchers in the northern hemisphere can try to observe all 110 objects from the Messier catalog in one night. To celebrate the Messier Marathon, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is releasing 12 new images to add to its extensive collection of Messier objects observed by Hubble.

View Hubble's full Messier catalog at nasa.gov/hubble.

Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.

Music credit: "Spartans" by Raul de Moral Redondo [SGAE]; El Murmullo Sarao SGAE, Universal SGAE; SaraoMusic; Killer Tracks Production Music

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See https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hubble-s-messier-catalog

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This page was originally published on Friday, March 16, 2018.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:46 PM EDT.

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