Astronomy:NGC 937
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Short description: Barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
| NGC 937 | |
|---|---|
 DSS image of NGC 937 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Andromeda |
| Right ascension | 02h 29m 28.25s[1] |
| Declination | +42° 14′ 58.8″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.018963[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 5631 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 260.9 ± 18.3 Mly (79.99 ± 5.61 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 15.0[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SBcd?[2] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 1961, MCG+07-06-024, PGC 9480[2] | |
NGC 937 is a barred spiral galaxy[3] located in the constellation Andromeda about 251 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan in 1884.[4][5]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W. et al. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal 131 (2): 1163–1183. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2006AJ....131.1163S.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "NGC 937". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+937.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Results for object NGC 0937 (NGC 937)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20937&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 937 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=964.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 937". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC937.
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