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Coma Berenices

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Coma Berenices

Constellation of the northern hemisphere, represented as Queen Berenice's hair.

It was named in the 3rd century BC to appease Queen Berenice after her hair, which she had sacrificed to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, had been stolen from the temple.

Many of the brighter stars in the constellation belong to an extended open cluster, but the term ‘Coma cluster’ usually refers to a concentration of the galaxies that abound in this part of the sky.
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A decade ago, Kronberg and other coworkers made such a calculation for Earth's largest nearby galaxy cluster--the Coma cluster in the constellation Coma Berenices.
Intergalactic magnetism runs deep and wide by Weiss, P. / Science News
And in 1975, a telescope aboard the Apollo-Soyuz mission detected five sources glowing in the extreme ultraviolet, including a white dwarf in the constellation Coma Berenices.
Exploring the Extreme Ultraviolet by Cowen, Ron / Science News
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