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deep-sky object

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | 231 words | Copyright

deep-sky object An object beyond the Solar System. The term is not usually applied to individual stars, but to objects of the kind found in the Messier Catalogue and New General Catalogue, i.e. star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies.

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