Home > Coma Berenices

Coma Berenices (Berenice's Hair) is a traditional asterismAsterism has several meanings: In astronomy, it refers to a constellation-like group of stars; see asterism (astronomy) In gemmology, it is an optical phenomenon; see asterism (gemmology) In typography, it refers to a symbol; see asterism (typography). that has since become a constellationOrion is a remarkable constellation, visible from most places on the globe (but not always the whole year long). A constellation is a group of stars visibly related to each other in a particular configuration. In three-dimensional space, most of the stars. It is located near Leo.

1 Notable features

The brightest starFor alternate meanings see star (disambiguation Hubble Space Telescope of the Sagittarius Star Cloud in the Milky Way Galaxy. A star is any massive gaseous celestial body in outer space. Stars appear as shining points in the nighttime sky that twinkle bec in Coma Berenices (α Comae Berenices) is named Diadem; it represents the gem in Berenice's crown.

β Comae Berenices is a little brighter than our SunThe Sun (also called Sol is the star in our solar system. Planet Earth orbits the Sun. Other bodies that orbit the Sun include other planets, asteroids, meteoroids, comets and dust. Not all objects passing through the solar system have been orbitally capt, which gives us an idea of how faint the Sun would appear seen from only 27To help compare different distances this page lists lengths between 1017 m (11 light years) and 1018 m (110 light years). See also lengths of other orders of magnitude. Distances shorter than 1017 m 110,000,000 million km 12 light years Distance from Eart light yearA light year abbreviated ly is the distance light travels in one year: roughly 9. 46 × 1012 kilometres (9. 46 petametres, or about 5. 88 × 1012 miles). More specifically, a light year is defined as the distance that a photon would travel, in free space ans away.