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Messier.

A surname from French [in turn originating as an occupation], famously held by

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name/ˈmɛs.i.eɪ/

  1. A surname from French [in turn originating as an occupation], famously held by

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  2. A surname from French [in turn originating as an occupation], famously held by: Charles Messier (1730-1817), a French astronomer who between 1774 and 1781 published his Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters, a catalogue of deep-sky objects.

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  3. A surname from French [in turn originating as an occupation], famously held by: Charles Messier (1730-1817), a French astronomer who between 1774 and 1781 published his Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters, a catalogue of deep-sky objects. As a designation, the numbered objects in Messier's catalog are prepended with his surname or the letter M.

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    Messier 31 (M31) is the Andromeda Galaxy; Messier 42 (M42) is the Orion Nebula
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