The Hubble Space Telescope images nearby spiral galaxy NGC 4689, which shines in the constellation Coma Berenices, which means "Berenice's Hair" in Latin and refers to Queen Berenice II of Egypt.

This week, I want to take you to Coma Berenices, a small and faint spring constellation. Its name is Latin for “Berenice’s Lock”, representing the beautiful hair of Queen Berenice of Egypt.

Just days later, sacrilegious souvenir-seeking scoundrels liberated Bernice’s’ hair out of the temple. When the hair heist was discovered, Ptolemy and Berenices were ready to fight.

While the story of Berenice’s hair is old, the constellation itself is relatively new; in fact, it wasn’t even created until 16th-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe sketched it on his sky maps.

In the dark triangle formed by Arcturus, Leo and the Big Dipper lies the faint constellation of Coma Berenices, Berenice's hair. None of the individual stars are very bright, but together they give an ...

Queen Berenices was the wife of Ptolemy III, a famous Egyptian Pharaoh who lived around 200 B.C. According to this sordid tale, the great Pharaoh was leading his troops into a fierce war and ...

The Coma Star Cluster (Melotte 111) is a group of about 40 stars. It's located near the star Gamma Comae Berenices, but is further away. The cluster is bright enough (magnitude 1.8) that some ...