• The Coma Filament is a galaxy filament. The filament contains the Coma Supercluster of galaxies and forms a part of the CfA2 Great Wall. Abell catalogue...
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    1984, pp. 85–92. Research supported by Cornell University "The Coma/A 1367 filament of galaxies" 09/1984 Bibcode:1984A&A...138...85F THE ASTRONOMICAL...
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    Earth, it is in the center of the Great Wall and a part of the Coma Filament. The Coma Supercluster is the nearest massive cluster of galaxies to our...
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  • CfA2 Great Wall (redirect from Coma Wall)
    Great Wall (also called Coma Wall), sometimes specifically referred to as the CfA2 Great Wall, is an immense galaxy filament. It is one of the largest...
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    magnitude of 10.7. The Coma Supercluster, itself part of the Coma Filament, contains the Coma and Leo Cluster of galaxies. The Coma Cluster (Abell 1656)...
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    the spiral galaxies of the cluster are distributed in an oblong prolate filament, approximately four times as long as it is wide, stretching along the line...
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    Cosmic voids (also known as dark space) are vast spaces between filaments (the largest-scale structures in the universe), which contain very few or no...
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    arranged in overlapping rows, bear a cluster of white, silky, filament-like hairs known as the coma (often referred to by other names such as pappus, "floss"...
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    IC 4040 (category Coma Cluster)
    "KINEMATICS AND EXCITATION OF THE RAM PRESSURE STRIPPED IONIZED GAS FILAMENTS IN THE COMA CLUSTER OF GALAXIES*". The Astrophysical Journal. 749 (1): 43. arXiv:1202...
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    the Pisces–Cetus Supercluster Complex, a galaxy filament. Dipole repeller Galaxy cluster Galaxy filament Illustris project Local Void – nearest neighboring...
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    NGC 4889 (redirect from Coma B)
    Supercluster. The Coma Supercluster itself is within the CfA Homunculus, the center of the CfA2 Great Wall, the nearest galaxy filament to Earth and one...
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    Leo Cluster (category Great Wall filament)
    member of this cluster. Along with the Coma Cluster, it is one of the two major clusters comprising the Coma Supercluster, which in turn is part of the...
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    "a carbon filament or strip coiled and connected to platina contact wires". The patent described several ways of creating the carbon filament including...
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    66 solar masses per year. NGC 4325, contains several distinct, radial filaments with a complex morphology that strongly resembles NGC 1275 which lies...
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    Cosmic dust (redirect from Dust filament)
    Stardust mission, was launched on 7 February 1999 to collect samples from the coma of comet Wild 2, as well as samples of cosmic dust. It returned samples to...
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    (Hercules Cluster), and Abell 2152 galaxy clusters. An extremely long filament of galaxies has been found, that connects this group of clusters to the...
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    clusters. Superclusters form massive structures of galaxies, called "filaments", "supercluster complexes", "walls" or "sheets", that may span between...
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    and dust, and an object when describing the entire comet with its diffuse coma and tail. Astronomical objects such as stars, planets, nebulae, asteroids...
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    NGC 4921 (category Coma Berenices)
    Cortés, P. C.; Wu, Y.-T. (2021). "Molecular Gas Filaments and Fallback in the Ram Pressure Stripped Coma Spiral NGC 4921". The Astrophysical Journal. 921...
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    approximately 9.46 trillion kilometres). This list includes superclusters, galaxy filaments and large quasar groups (LQGs). The structures are listed based on their...
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    NGC 4670 (category Coma Berenices)
    NGC 4670 is a blue compact galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy lies about 60 million light years away from Earth, which means, given...
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    a horseshoe shaped coma. It was probably created by the release of about 10 billion kilograms of dust and ice into space. The coma had expanded to a diameter...
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    an atmosphere called a coma. The coma is partially ionized by the sunlight, and when the solar wind passes through this ion coma, the bow shock appears...
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    populated by intermittent coronal structures known as solar prominences or filaments. The Sun's corona lies above the chromosphere and extends millions of...
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    astronomy. Voids are particularly galaxy-poor regions of space between filaments, making up the large-scale structure of the universe. Some voids are known...
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    largest scale, these associations are generally arranged into sheets and filaments surrounded by immense voids. Both the Local Group and the Virgo Supercluster...
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    of the Milky Way. 1933 — Fritz Zwicky applies the virial theorem to the Coma Cluster and obtains evidence for unseen mass. 1936 — Edwin Hubble introduces...
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    composed of myofibrils. The myofibrils are composed of actin and myosin filaments called myofilaments, repeated in units called sarcomeres, which are the...
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    galaxies or by small satellite galaxies falling in toward M87. Moreover, a filament of hot, ionized gas in the northeastern outer part of the galaxy may be...
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    23 kpc (75,000 ly). A 2015 paper discovered that there is a ring-like filament of stars called Triangulum–Andromeda Ring (TriAnd Ring) rippling above...
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