Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 17 11.4
- Declination
- 15 ° 19 ′ 26 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 867 km/s
- Distance
- 59 Mly (18.1 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- SAB(rs)bc, LINER
- Size
- ~50,100 ly (15.35 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 2.33 x 1.07
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4237 is a flocculent spiral galaxy located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on December 30, 1783 and is a member of the Virgo Cluster. It is also classified as a LINER galaxy and as a Seyfert galaxy.
NGC 4237 appears to be deficient in neutral atomic hydrogen (H I). This, combined with its large projected distance from M87 and its radial velocity close to the Virgo Cluster mean suggests that the galaxy may be on a highly radial orbit through the center of the cluster.
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