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Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 31 59.1691
- Declination
- +14 ° 25 ′ 12.974 ″
- Redshift
- 0.007 619 ± 0.000 005 00
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2,284 ± 1 km/s
- Distance
- 58.66 ± 2.25 Mly (17.984 ± 0.690 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- SA(rs)b, H II Sy2
- Number of stars
- 400 billion
- Size
- 131,250 ly (40.26 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 6.9′ × 3.7′
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 20.9
- Radius
- 65000
- Image
- M88s.jpg
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- catalog code
- [NKB95] N4501
- Commons category
- Messier 88
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- Messier 88
- time of discovery or invention
- 1781-03-18
- apparent magnitude
- 6.267
- galaxy morphological type
- Sbc
- redshift
- 0.007602
- right ascension
- 187.9967333
- declination
- 14.4204111
- radial velocity
- 2270
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Messier 88 (also known as M88 or NGC 4501) is a spiral galaxy about 50 to 60 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1781.
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