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Bookmark or Share- Charles Messier - NASA ScienceHubble 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.
- Messier Catalogue: the complete list - BBC Sky at Night MagazineThe complete Messier Catalogue, including images, magnitudes and coordinates to find each one in the night sky.
- Hubble's Messier Catalog - Science@NASAOverview. The Messier catalog, begun by astronomer Charles Messier in the 18th Century and revised over the years, includes some of the most fascinating astronomical objects that can be observed from Earth’s Northern Hemisphere.
- Messier catalog | Deep-Sky Objects, Nebulae & GalaxiesM15. M3. nebula. star cluster. 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 Messier Catalog: A List of Messier Objects | StarLustThere are 110 astronomical objects listed in the Messier catalog: 40 galaxies, 29 globular clusters, 27 open clusters, 6 diffuse nebulae, 4 planetary nebulae. The list also contains a few stand-alone objects: 1 supernova remnant, 1 asterism, 1 double star, and 1 Milky Way patch.
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