page_title: NGC 4881
hierarchical_section_title: NGC 4881
caption_attribution_description: This photo mosaic, which shows a field of distant galaxies, is a computer enhanced reproduction of a picture taken 4 March 1994 with the repaired Hubble Space Telescope. It combines 16 exposures of 15 minutes each, taken through two filters (F555W and F814W) with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The HST WFPC2 field is chevron-shaped, because it is a mosaic of images recorded with three Wide Field cameras and one higher resolution camera (Planetary Camera) in the upper left. The brightest object in this picture is NGC 4881, approximately centered here in the Planetary Camera (the small quadrant). It is a 13th-magnitude elliptical galaxy in the outskirts of the Coma Cluster, a great cluster of galaxies more than 5 times farther away than the Virgo Cluster.
context_page_description: NGC 4881 is an elliptical galaxy about 102 megaparsecs away in the Coma cluster of galaxies. NGC 4881 was discovered by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest in 1865.
  In 1994, the Hubble Space Telescope examined the Coma cluster and NGC 4881.
context_section_description: NGC 4881 is an elliptical galaxy about 102 megaparsecs away in the Coma cluster of galaxies. NGC 4881 was discovered by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest in 1865.
  In 1994, the Hubble Space Telescope examined the Coma cluster and NGC 4881.
caption: Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4881 (center) and the Spiral galaxy PGC 44691 (right).
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