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Q43842
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lenticular galaxy in the constellation Phoenix
Key facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Right ascension
- 00 11 22.93
- Declination
- −56 ° 57 ′ 26.4 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 9775 ± 45 km/s
- Distance
- 151.36 Mpc , (493,68 million ly ), Redshift-based
- Type
- (RL)SAB0
- Apparent size v
- 1.1′ × 0.7'
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Distance from Earth
- 164.64
- Image
- NGC 37 DECam.png
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- Commons category
- NGC 37
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 4919494715236325504
- galaxy morphological type
- Sab
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1836-10-02
- apparent magnitude
- 10.425
- redshift
- 0.032606
- right ascension
- 2.84559726681430
- declination
- -56.95731368996220
- radial velocity
- 9809
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 37 is a lenticular galaxy located in the Phoenix constellation. It is approximately 42 kiloparsecs (137,000 light-years) in diameter and about 12.9 billion years old.
It may have a companion galaxy called PGC 95382. Its redshift and radial velocity (z=0.03007 & V=8880 km/s) are really similar so it can be situated quite close to NGC 37.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q43842” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.