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Coma Cluster  

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  • The nearest rich cluster of galaxies which contains more than a thousand known galaxies, is about 20 million light-years in diameter, and lies about 280 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. (en)

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  • Abell 1656 (en)

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http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/270

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