Charles Messier
18th- and 19th-century French astronomer
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Updated 2026-05-29
French astronomer who catalogued 110 nebulae and star clusters in the 1700s—now known as Messier objects, still the go-to reference for stargazers hunting fuzzy sky stuff.
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Charles Messier 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 astronomical observers distinguish between permanent and transient visually diffuse objects in the sky.
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