Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  HD112734  ·  HD112886  ·  HD112887  ·  IC 3943  ·  IC 3946  ·  IC 3947  ·  IC 3949  ·  IC 3955  ·  IC 3957  ·  IC 3959  ·  IC 3960  ·  IC 3963  ·  IC 3968  ·  IC 3973  ·  IC 3976  ·  IC 3998  ·  IC 4011  ·  IC 4012  ·  IC 4021  ·  IC 4026  ·  IC 4030  ·  IC 4033  ·  IC 4040  ·  IC 4041  ·  IC 4042  ·  IC 4044  ·  IC 4045  ·  IC 4051  ·  NGC 4851  ·  NGC 4853  ·  And 26 more.
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The Coma Cluster, Franklin Marek
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The Coma Cluster

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The Coma Cluster

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The Coma Cluster.  Home to 1000 galaxies.  There are just 8 Tycho named stars in the entire field of this view.  Almost everything else is a galaxy.  Sitting ~320 million lightyears from earth it was one of the first places where anomalies in the velocities of galaxies led Fritz Zwicky to write that they must be held together by Dark Matter.  I uploaded a different annotated image to show how much is in this image!

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Description: Sometimes it is great to look at the inverted image like the old school photographic plates. The galaxies just seem to pop!

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The Coma Cluster, Franklin Marek