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NGC 4881
Galaxy List of galaxies
|- ! style="text-align:left;" | Apparent magnitude (V) | +13.5 |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Apparent dimensions (V) | 1.0' × 1.0' |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Constellation | Coma Berenices |- ! colspan="2" style="background-color: #30D5C8; text-align: center;" | Physical characteristics |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Radius | ? |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Absolute magnitude (V) | 13.6 |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Notable features | } |- ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Other designations |- | colspan="2" | |}

NGC 4881 is an elliptical galaxy about 352 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is a mamber of the Coma cluster of galaxies. NGC 4881 was discovered by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest in 1865.

In 1994, the Hubble Space Telescope took a look at the Coma cluster and NGC 4881.

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