Coma superclusters
The Coma supercluster is a huge structure of many thousands of galaxies , which is located in the direction of the constellations Coma ( hair of Berenice ) and Leo .
The majority of the Coma supercluster consists of the two galaxy clusters Abell 1656 and Abell 1367 . In astronomy, however, they are usually referred to as Coma or Leo galaxy clusters and are about 310 and 290 million light years away from us. The two "clusters" of Coma and Leo are connected by a "bridge" of galaxies, possibly a "bridge" in our direction.
The Virgo galaxy cluster in the constellation Virgo, which is five times closer in the sky, is also part of a supercluster ( Virgo supercluster ), to which our Milky Way and its " local group " also belong. Many galaxy researchers interpret these two large structures as connected because they are likely to be connected to one another by a long galaxy bridge in the form of a filament , and speak of the Coma-Virgo supercluster .