101 Must-See Cosmic Objects: M87

M87 is yet another Messier elliptical galaxy in the Virgo Cluster, 55 million light-years distant and some 120,000 light-years across. It lies about 3½° northwest of Rho Virginis. But M87 outdoes M84 and M86 in sheer mass: It has least a trillion stars totaling a mass of 2.7 trillion Suns. […]

Heirloom: Doing up a passed-down Sym Wolf 125

Most customs look nothing like a factory bike, with radical styling and, let’s face it, often dubious legality. But occasionally we see a machine that could have rolled straight off a production line. This custom Sym Wolf looks it could have been a ‘retro’ made by a Japanese factory in […]