#coma berenices

[quiltofstars]

NGC 4725 (lower left) and NGC 4747 (top right) // zhiyuan wan

[chibinotan]

Lensed Seahorse

[yoan-le-grall]

[merelygifted]

Bejeweled galaxy of 'Berenice's Hair' sparkles in new Hubble Telescope photo | Space

The galaxy lies in the constellation Coma Berenices, or Queen Berenice's Hair

[wozziebear]

Went out into a clear and pleasant night in the 40s and spotted several meteors in the constellation Leo as well as one in Cancer. Hard to tell where the radiant was located, but they're either Leonids or Taurids

[heirceleste-a]

cassidy through the years! from a sweet little ballerina to a badass witch.

[zespaceblog]

NGC 4907

A barred spiral galaxy face on, at some 284 million light years from us, in the constellation of Coma Berenices. What is truly amazing about this image is the number of galaxies, both around this galaxy, but that we can also see through it. 

The large star is actually in our Milky Way, so MUCH closer to home and why it appears so bright.  

[therealuniverse]

MESSIER 91 GALAXY M91 (NGC 4548) is a faint barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices and is a member of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. The galaxy lies about 55 million light years from Earth. It has a very prominent bar structure connected to two outer arms that trail stars and interstellar dust. The distribution of the atomic gas shows a ring-like structure.

When Charles Messier was observing and logging deep space objects on the night of March 18, 1781, chances are very good that M91 was what he was describing when he recorded: “Nebula without stars, fainter than M90″. But, there was a problem… Charles Messier made a rare bookkeeping mistake and logged its position wrong. So, for a long time M91 was a missing Messier object, as Messier had determined its position from M89 while he thought it was from M58. M91 was catalogued as H II.120 by William Herschel in 1784. Navigating using the directions that Messier initially, yet erroneously logged, Herschel thought the object to be NGC 4571, a beautiful but faint barred spiral galaxy. The identity of M91 was corrected by observations by astronomer William C. Williams in 1969. Prior opinions have been that M91 had either been a comet which the great comet hunter Messier mistook for a nebula. Measurements done by the Hubble Space Telescope indicate that M91 is moving away from us at a speed of about 400 km/s (895,000 mph). The galaxy’s particular speed is unusual because the Virgo Cluster is moving away from us at a speed of 1100 km/s (2.4 million mph), indicating M91 must be traveling toward us at 700 km/s (1.5 million mph) relative to the other galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. -JMP http://www.universetoday.com/48349/messier-91/ http://messier.seds.org/m/m091.html Image Credit: Kitt Peak National Observatory (Haynes)/NOAO/AURA/NSF