NGC 4881
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NGC 4881 is an elliptical galaxy in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest on April 22, 1865. John L. E. Dreyer described it as "faint, small, a little extended, 9th magnitude star to southwest".<ref name=cseligman/> This object is located at a distance of approximately Template:Convert from the Milky Way.<ref name=Tully2013/> It is a member of the Coma cluster of galaxies,<ref name="ThomsenBaum1997"/> positioned around Template:Val to the north of the cluster's center with no nearby galactic neighbors.<ref name=Baum1995/>
The morphological class of this galaxy is E0, indicating it is an elliptical galaxy with a spherically symmetric form. It does not display any unusual or peculiar features. A total of 88 globular cluster candidates have been identified orbiting this galaxy, which yields an estimated total of Template:Val.<ref name=Baum1995/> It has an unusually low frequency of globulars for a galaxy of this type.<ref name=Baum1994/>