NGC 4649
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! style="text-align:left;" | Apparent magnitude (V)
| +8.8
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! style="text-align:left;" | Apparent dimensions (V)
| 7.2' × 6.2'
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! style="text-align:left;" | Constellation
| Virgo
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! colspan="2" style="background-color: #30D5C8; text-align: center;" | Physical characteristics
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! style="text-align:left;" | Radius
| 60,000 ly
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! style="text-align:left;" | Absolute magnitude (V)
| -22.3
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|} M60 (also known as NGC 4649) is an elliptical galaxy approximately 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered by Johann Gottfried Koehler in 1779. M60 is the third brightest giant elliptical galaxies of the Virgo cluster of galaxies, and is the dominant member of a subcluster of 4 galaxies, which is the closest known isolated compact group of galaxies. A supernova (SN 2004W) was observed in Messier 60. Messier 60 is in the process of colliding and merging with NGC 4647, an unbarred spiral galaxy). See alsoExternal links
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