"' NGC 4571 "'is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Coma Berenices that William Herschel thought it could be the object # 91 in Charles Messier'catalog of deep-sky objects, before nearly two centuries later that object was determined to be the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 4548.
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In 1986 he discovered Malin 1, a giant spiral galaxy located away in the constellation Coma Berenices, near the North Galactic Pole . it is the largest spiral galaxy so far discovered, with an approximate diameter of, six and a half times the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Modern astronomers, including Tycho Brahe in 1602, excised a group of stars that once made up the " tuft " of the lion's tail and used them to form the new constellation Coma Berenices ( Berenice's hair ), although there was precedent for that designation among the ancient Greeks and Romans.
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The poem " Coma Berenices " by Greek poet Callimachus ( lost, but known in a Latin translation or paraphrase by Catullus ), apparently refers to her coup against Demetrius : " Let me remind you how stout-hearted you were even as a young girl : have you forgotten the brave deed by which you gained a royal marriage ?"
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Yet some authors argue that the controversy over the distance to the Pleiades discussed below is a red herring, since the cosmic distance ladder can ( presently ) rely on a suite of other nearby clusters where consensus exists regarding the distances as established by Hipparcos and independent means ( e . g ., the Coma Berenices cluster, etc . ).
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The poem " Coma Berenices " by Greek poet Callimachus ( lost, but known in a Latin translation or paraphrase by Catullus ), apparently refers to her supporters killing of Demetrius : " Let me remind you how stout-hearted you were even as a young girl : have you forgotten the brave deed by which you gained a royal marriage ?"
