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==== Virgo Cluster ==== [[File:25 years of stunning definition Messier 100.jpg|thumb|[[Messier 100]] taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3<ref>{{cite web |title=25 years of stunning definition |url=https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1850a/ |website=www.spacetelescope.org |access-date=10 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref>]] Coma Berenices contains the northern portion of the [[Virgo Cluster]] (also known as the Coma–Virgo Cluster), about 60 million light-years away. The portion includes six Messier galaxies. [[Messier 85|M85]] (NGC 4382), considered [[elliptical galaxy|elliptical]] or [[lenticular galaxy|lenticular]], is one of the cluster's brighter members at magnitude nine. M85 is interacting with the spiral galaxy [[NGC 4394]] and the elliptical galaxy [[MCG-3-32-38]].<ref name="Nagle">{{cite web | url =http://www.brastro.org/newsletter/2016-June_Newsletter.pdf |title=Coma Berenices|work=Newsletter of the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society| first=John |last= Nagle|date=June 2016| access-date =15 Aug 2016}}</ref> However, it is relatively isolated from the rest of the cluster.<ref name=Escudero>{{cite journal|doi=10.1093/mnras/stac021|bibcode=2022MNRAS.511..393E|arxiv=2201.01759|title=The complex globular cluster system of the S0 galaxy NGC 4382 in the outskirts of the Virgo Cluster|year=2022|last1=Escudero|first1=Carlos G.|last2=Cortesi|first2=Arianna|last3=Faifer|first3=Favio R.|last4=Sesto|first4=Leandro A.|last5=Smith Castelli|first5=Analía V.|last6=Johnston|first6=Evelyn J.|last7=Reynaldi|first7=Victoria|last8=Chies-Santos|first8=Ana L.|last9=Salinas|first9=Ricardo|last10=Menéndez-Delmestre|first10=Karín|last11=Gonçalves|first11=Thiago S.|last12=Grossi|first12=Marco|last13=Mendes De Oliveira|first13=Claudia|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|volume=511|issue=1 |pages=393–412|doi-access=free }}</ref> [[Messier 88|M88]] (NGC 4501) is a multi-arm spiral galaxy seen at about 30° from edge-on. It has a highly-regular shape with well-developed, symmetrical arms. Among the first galaxies recognized as spiral,<ref>{{cite web | url =http://messier.seds.org/m/m088.html|title=Messier 88 |publisher=The Messier Catalog| access-date =20 November 2016}}</ref> it has a [[supermassive black hole]] in its center.<ref name="Nagle"/> [[Messier 91|M91]] (NGC 4548), a [[barred spiral galaxy]] with a bright, diffuse nucleus, is the faintest object in Messier's catalog at magnitude 10.2.<ref>{{cite web | url =http://messier.seds.org/m/m091.html|title=Messier 91 |publisher=The Messier Catalog| access-date =20 November 2016}}</ref> [[Messier 98|M98]] (NGC 4192), a bright, elongated spiral galaxy seen nearly edge-on, appears elliptical because of its unusual angle. The magnitude-10 galaxy has no [[redshift]].{{sfn|Burnham|2013|p=682}} [[Messier 99|M99]] (NGC 4254) is a [[spiral galaxy]] seen face-on. Like M98 it is of magnitude-10 and has an unusually long arm on its west side. Four supernovae have been observed in the galaxy.<ref>{{citation | title=List of Supernovae | publisher=IAU | work=Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams | url=http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/lists/Supernovae.html | access-date=2018-12-19 }}</ref><ref name="Vollmer2005">{{Cite journal | last1=Vollmer | first1=B. | last2=Huchtmeier | first2=W. | last3=van Driel | first3=W. | date=September 2005 | journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics | volume=439 | issue=3 | pages=921–933 | title=NGC 4254: a spiral galaxy entering the Virgo cluster | bibcode = 2005A&A...439..921V | arxiv=astro-ph/0505021 | doi=10.1051/0004-6361:20041350 | s2cid=17414818 }}</ref><ref name=Fairall1975>{{citation | first1=A. P. | last1=Fairall | title=The spectrum of the type II supernova 1967h in NGC 4254 | journal=Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of South Africa | volume=34 | issue=7–8 | date=August 1975 | pages=94–98 | bibcode= }}</ref> [[Messier 100|M100]] (NGC 4321), a magnitude-nine spiral galaxy seen face-on, is one of the cluster's brightest.<ref name="m100">{{cite web | url =http://messier.seds.org/m/m100.html|title=Messier 100 |publisher=The Messier Catalog| access-date =24 November 2016}}</ref> Photographs reveal a brilliant core, two prominent spiral arms, an array of secondary arms and several [[dust lane]]s.
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