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Astronomical objects catalogued by Charles Messier
The Messier objects are a set of 110 astronomical objects catalogued by the French astronomer Charles Messier in his (Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters). Because Messier was interested only in finding comets, he created a list of those non-comet objects that frustrated his hunt for them. This list, which Messier created in collaboration with his assistant Pierre Méchain, is now known as the M... Wikipedia
