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Word: messier
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Proper noun:
- A French surname.
- Charles Messier (1730-1817); a Messier's catalog are numbered, and the letter '''M''' (for Messier) is prepended to these numbers, as in M31 (the Andromeda Galaxy) or M13 (the globular cluster in Hercules).
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