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LITERALLY
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oh my god how is this so true ???
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i read this while imagining him crying head in hands
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And these are not recent discoveries, as the Messier Catalog wad made in the late 1700s.
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M means it's from the Messier Catalog of astronomical objects, and the number is what place it has in the catalog. Most of them have non-systematic names also used to describe them, though.
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If an object has M before it, that means it's from the "Messier Catalogue," when a French guy named Charles Messier was trying to look for comets, and made a catalog of the objects that weren't comets in the sky. This is the 81st object of it.