Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix
French astronomer
Died when: 83 years 56 days (997 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (23 November 1718, in Toulouse – 18 January 1802, in Toulouse) was a French astronomer.He has usually been credited with the discovery of the Ring Nebula in 1779, but in fact he independently rediscovered it upon reading a report of Charles Messier regarding Messier's own observations of Comet Bode.
His description that the object was "...as large as Jupiter and resembles a planet which is fading" led to the terminology "planetary nebula".
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