Messier
Americannoun
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This is me trying my best to explain hockey without getting an angry phone call from Don Cherry or Mark Messier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
"There has been transformative technological innovation across all sectors of society that's come out of high-energy physics," noted Messier.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026
"As a physicist I find it fascinating that a huge question, like why there's matter in the universe instead of antimatter, can be broken down into smaller, step-by-step questions," said Messier.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026
Messier was interested in comets, so his list was a set of fuzzy objects that might be mistaken for comets.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025
“Hmmm, probably in the Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31. It has two trillion planets! Even so, you shouldn’t interrupt a cuento, Zeta-4,” he says.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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