Grab your telescope and explore the night sky Over 200 years ago, the French comet hunter Charles Messier (pronounced Messy-ay) published a list of fuzzy, comet-like objects he saw through his telescope. While to him they were a nuisance, we know them now to be star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies Modern astronomers later expanded his list from 103 to 110 objects--and they're some of the finest celestial sights to explore...