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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
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- proper noun astronomy A small dim
summer constellation of the northern sky, said to represent an offering of hair from Queen Berenice II of Egypt. Originally considered to represent the tuft ofhair on the end ofLeo 's tail.
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- noun a constellation in the northern hemisphere between Ursa Major and Bootes; contains a cluster of some 10,000 galaxies
Etymologies
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However, you can even the odds out a bit by watching the general area around the constellation of Coma Berenices.
The Coma Berenicid Meteor Shower Peaks | Universe Today 2010
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It lay along an edge of the constellation Coma Berenices and was about twenty million light-years distant, which meant that what Mott was seeing in 1961 was what the galaxy had looked like 2 x 107 years ago, and it awed him to realize that in the multiplex of years since that moment, the galaxy could have modified totally, or moved into conflict with another galaxy, or vanished altogether.
Space Michener, James 1982
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The enemy had been detected; coming in, as the previous Black Fleet had come, from the direction of Coma Berenices.
First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950
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Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices, and at the south galactic pole (in the two F-squares): --
Lectures on Stellar Statistics Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier 1898
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The nebula in Coma Berenices is a spiral edge-on to us, and we see that it has precisely the lens-shaped middle and the general flattened shape that we have found in our own system.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897
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Way (see Fig. 22) would give very much the mottled appearance we notice in the arms (which we see edge-on) of the nebula in Coma Berenices.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897
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The modern reader will not find much to interest him in the _Coma Berenices_, abounding as it does in mythological allusions.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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The stratum of Coma Berenices he judged to be the nearest to our system of such layers; nor did the marked aggregation of nebulæ towards both poles of the circle of the
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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Coma Berenices is a beautiful cluster of faint stars.
Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Henry White Warren 1871
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The Hair of Queen Berenice (_Coma Berenices_) is nearly due east, and fairly high.
Half-Hours with the Stars A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations 1862
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