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DURING the course of an investigation concerning the occurrence of bright metagalactic clusters, I have found between the constellations Perseus and Pegasus a number of clusters of anagalactic nebulæ which seem to form subsystems of an extended metagalactic cloud. This cosmical unit can be traced in Herschel's G.C. and is very conspicuous in the N.G.C. and I.C. material. On the whole, the supersystem is composed of fifteen or nineteen larger and smaller metagalactic clusters, situated between δ = 23h, δ = +20° and δ = 3h 20m, δ = +48°. All the subsystems are arranged in a zone reminding one of a region of the galaxy. The well-known Perseus cluster, discovered by M. Wolf, is involved on the north-following boundary, and the Pisces group (E. P. Hubble) near the central region of the cloud. A connexion between the metagalactic cloud in question and the Pegasus cluster is suggested.
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BERNHEIMER, W. A Metagalactic Cloud between Perseus and Pegasus. Nature 130, 132 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130132a0
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