Messier
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Messier (countable and uncountable, plural Messiers)
- 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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Inherited from Old French messier (“harvest warden”), from meis (“harvest”).
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