m98The M98 was the brainchild of Peter Paul Mauser, born on June 27, 1838. It was by no means his first invention, though. That honour must go to the Mauser- Norris metallicMessier 98 (M98) is a faint and elongated galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. It has a low surface brhtness, a dusty disk, a star forming nucleus and a history of