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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.01899675705402326
Morphology
SBc
Coordinates
RA 37.3670° · Dec 42.2500°
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Key facts

Constellation
Andromeda
Right ascension
02 29 28.25
Declination
+42 ° 14 ′ 58.8 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
5631 km/s
Distance
260.9 ± 18.3 Mly (79.99 ± 5.61 Mpc )
Type
SBcd?

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 937 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda about 251 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan on 12 December 1884.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1040339” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.