* Astronomy

NGC 4571 (also UGC 7788, IC 3588, and PGC 42100) is a magnitude +11.8 face-on spiral galaxy located 58 ±11 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.

The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road, Slough, on the 14th January 1787.
The galaxy was rediscovered by Arnold Schwassmann in 1900 and relisted as IC 3588.

Right Ascension 12h 36m 56.4s, Declination +14° 13' 02"

Despite being classified as a late-type galaxy, NGC 4571 has features more typical of spiral galaxies of earlier Hubble type such as a high colour index, both low star formation rate and H-Alpha brightness, and relatively little neutral hydrogen, suggesting it may have lost most of its gas due to interactions with Virgo's intragalactic medium and/or past interactions with other galaxies of the cluster.
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