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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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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Andromeda
Image
NGC 0937 DSS.jpg
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right ascension
37.367708
declination
42.249667
discoverer or inventor
Édouard Stephan
catalog code
LEDA 9480
time of discovery or invention
1884-12-12
galaxy morphological type
SB:c
apparent magnitude
15.0
Commons category
NGC 937
epoch
J2000.0
radial velocity
5631

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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.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 937” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.