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Coma Berenices

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Co·ma Ber·e·ni·ces  (km br-nsz)
n.
A constellation in the northern sky near Boötes and Leo that contains a prominent cluster of galaxies and the north pole of the Milky Way. Also called Berenice's Hair.
[New Latin Coma Berenics, Berenice's hair : Latin coma, hair + Latin Berenics, genitive of Berenic, Berenice (a queen of Egypt who promised her hair to Venus).]
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Noun1.Coma Berenices - a constellation in the northern hemisphere between Ursa Major and Bootes; contains a cluster of some 10,000 galaxies


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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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