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Messier 106
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Messier 106 (M106), discovered by Charles Messier’s colleague Pierre Méchain in 1781, is about 24 million light years away from us in Canes Venatici. Messier didn’t actually add it to his catalogue. Helen Sawyer Hogg added it in 1947 along with M105 and M107.
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