Charles Messier was a French astronomer. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and star clusters, which came to be known as the Messier objects, referred to with the letter M and their number between 1 and 110.
Some of these are now known to be planetary nebulae
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Some of these are now known to be planetary nebulae
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M37 / IPHASX J055226.2+323724
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M 57
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M 76
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M 97 with Halo
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