Did Charles Messier discover all of the objects in his catalogue?
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Charles Messier did not discover all of the objects in his catalogue. Many of them had been observed by other astronomers before him, but he was the first to systematically catalogue them. He was also the first to realize that many of these objects were not stars, but rather nebulae and other celestial objects.
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