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Canes Venatici CloudIn astronomy, the Canes Venatici cloud is a galaxy cluster cloud that is part of the Virgo supercluster and harbours our own galaxy. The cloud has the shape of a flat disk, with a thickness of 0.3 Mpc and a radius of about 19 Mpc; it contains both the Local Group as well as several other galaxy clusters, as listed in the following table. This cloud has the shape of a flat disk, 0.3 Mpc thick and with a radius of about 19 Mpc. This cloud of galaxies contains the Local Group and several galaxy clusters defined by 2, as listed in the following table. "G" stands for the de Vaucouleurs number of the group, "Name" is the proper name used by de Vaucouleurs, "Dist" is the revised distance from 2 (1973) in Mpc, "Brightest" lists the identification of the brightest member galaxy of the group, "B(0)" is the standard face-on B magnitude of that brightest member. Notes 1. Following de Vaucouleurs External links - R. Brent Tully: The Local Supercluster, Astrophys. J., vol. 257, pp. 389-422 (1982)
- G. de Vaucouleurs Nearby Groups of Galaxies, Chapter 14 in Galaxies and the Universe, Volume 9 of Stars and Stellar Systems University of Chicago Press (Midway Reprint), ISBN 0-226-45970-5 (1975).
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