The last item in the Messier Catalogue was not in fact included by Charles Messier himself,
but is one of seven objects added posthumously. It is one of the Andromeda Galaxy's pair of
major satellite galaxies (the other, M32, was catalogued by Messier
himself). It is a narrowed Ellipse in form, classified as E5 or E6 on the Hubble
system.
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