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Charles Messier ( French: [ʃaʁl me.sje]; 26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and star clusters, which came to be known as the Messier objects, referred to with the letter M and their number between 1 and 110. Messier's purpose for the catalogue was to help ...
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Apr 8, 2024 · Charles Messier (born June 26, 1730, Badonviller, France—died April 12, 1817, Paris) was a French astronomer who was the first to compile a systematic catalog of nebulae and star clusters. In Messier’s time, a nebula was a term used to denote any blurry celestial light source.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 1, 2011 · Charles Messier was born on the 26th of June, 1730, in Badonviller, France, near Strasbourg, close to the German border, one of the youngest of 12 children. He was the tenth child of Nicolas and Françoise Messier, so he wasn’t quite the baby of the family. The Messiers lived in the (then) kingdom of France, near the Duchy of Lorraine.
- Philip Pugh
- 2012
Jul 20, 2012 · Charles Messier was the tenth of twelve children born to a wealthy French family on June 26, 1730. The loss of his father at the age of eleven changed the family's financial status, however, and ...
Who was Charles Messier, and how did he come to make the famous Messier Catalogue of deep-sky astronomical objects?
Hubble Space Telescope. Charles Messier. (1730–1817) Astronomer. Although there are as many as one hundred billion comets in the outer regions of the solar system, prior to 1995, only around 900 had ever been discovered. This is because most comets are too dim to be detected without the proper astronomical equipment.
