It is located in and takes its name from the constellation Coma Berenices.

It is visible in the southern part of constellation Coma Berenices.

He is primarily remembered for naming the constellation Coma Berenices.

Messier 98, a magnitude 11.0 spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices.

The cluster is spread over a huge region, more than 5 degrees across, near γ Coma Berenices.

Although Coma Berenices is not a large constellation, it contains eight Messier objects.

IOK-1 is a distant galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices.

Diadem (star) is the brightest star in the constellation Coma Berenices.

HD 114762 is a binary star system approximately 132 light years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.

The cluster, named after its parent constellation Coma Berenices, is near the Milky Way's north pole.

NGC 4881 is an elliptical galaxy about 352 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.

NGC 4710 is an edge-on unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices.

Messier object M64, a magnitude 9.0 galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, also known as the Black Eye Galaxy.

NGC 4676, or the Mice Galaxies, are two spiral galaxies in the constellation Coma Berenices.

Messier 100 (also known as NGC 4321) is an example of a grand design spiral galaxy located within the southern part of constellation Coma Berenices.

Messier 99 (also known as M99 or NGC 4254) is an unbarred spiral galaxy approximately 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.

Makemake is currently visually the second-brightest Kuiper belt object after Pluto, having a March opposition apparent magnitude of 16.7 in the constellation Coma Berenices.

SN 1960R was a Type Sp supernova about 60 million light-years away in Messier 85, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices.

This image shows a majestic face-on spiral galaxy located deep within the Coma Cluster of galaxies, which lies 320 million light-years away, in the northern constellation Coma Berenices.

The NGC 4631 Group is a poorly defined group of galaxies, about 25 million light years from Earth in the Coma Berenices and Canes Venatici constellations.

In 1551, Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish cartographer, produced a celestial globe portraying the 48 traditional Ptolemaic constellations in addition to two others, Coma Berenices and Antinous.

NGC 4889, also known as Caldwell 35, is a supergiant class-4 elliptical galaxy, the brightest within the Coma cluster and a Caldwell object in the constellation Coma Berenices.

Coma Berenicids (IMO designation: CBE; IAU shower number: 20) is a minor meteor shower, originating from the constellation Coma Berenices.

Coma Berenices is one of the few constellations to owe its name to a historical figure, in this case Queen Berenice II of Egypt, wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes (fl.

One team, led by Dr. David Ardila of Johns Hopkins University, used Hubble to photograph the disk of dust surrounding the star known as HD 107146, about 88 light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.

He indicated a cluster of stars that have since been called Berenice's Hair.

The name Coma Berenices or Berenice's hair, applied to a constellation, commemorates this incident.

Berenice's Hair (title only)

Eratosthenes referred to it as both "Ariadne's Hair" and "Berenice's Hair".

He named the constellation Coma Berenices ("Berenice's Hair") after Ptolemy's wife Berenice II.

Antedating even Ptolemy by centuries, Conon of Alexandria created the asterism "Berenice's Hair" commemorating his queen in 243 BC.

A star truly identical to the Sun is the Diadem, or Alpha Comae, 62 light-years away in the neighbouring constellation of Coma Berenices, or Berenice's Hair.

Its name means "Berenice's Hair" (in Greek, via Latin), and refers to the legend of Queen Berenice II of Egypt, who sacrificed her long hair.

Alpha Comae Berenices (Alpha Com, α Com, α Comae Berenices) is a star in the constellation Coma Berenices (Berenice's Hair).