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Coma Berenices

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Coma Berenices [′kō·mə ‚ber·ə′nī·sēz]
(astronomy)
A constellation, right ascension 13 hours, declination 20°N. Abbreviated Com. Also known as Berenice's Hair.


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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.
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.
 
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