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In what year did Charles Messier die?

  • 1817

  • 1816

  • 1815

  • 1814

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Charles Messier died in 1817, at the age of 73. He was a French astronomer and comet hunter who is best known for his catalog of nebulae and star clusters, which is still in use today.
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