wild duck cluster

"Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg." -Hans Christian Anderson Welcome back for another Messier Monday! There are 110 deep-sky objects in the Messier catalogue, some of the most prominent night-sky fixtures, as seen from Earth, running the gamut of astronomical phenomena from within our galaxy and beyond. Each week, we pick a new one to place under the spotlight, examining what it is, what we know about it, and how to find it, among other spectacular facts. Image credit: Rolando Ligustri, taken over many years, retrieved from http://www.…