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Coma cluster

The Coma Cluster contains 1000 large galaxies and thousands of smaller systems; the mean distance from us is 300 million lightyears. The largest galaxy in the cluster, NGC4881, has a diameter of 300000 lightyears, three times that of our galaxy.

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