Messier
Americannoun
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Hubble has observed Messier 3, also known as NGC 5272, several times over the years, helping scientists examine its unusual stellar population and complex structure in increasing detail.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
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
"We've made progress on this really big, seemingly intractable question: why is there something instead of nothing?" said Professor 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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