NGC 3949
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spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiC
- Redshift
- z = 0.0026821165461219376
- Morphology
- SA
- Coordinates
- RA 178.4239° · Dec 47.8587°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 11 53 41.7948
- Declination
- +47 ° 51 ′ 31.387 ″
- Redshift
- 800 ± 1 km/ s
- Distance
- 48.6 ± 3.5 Mly (14.89 ± 1.06 Mpc )
- Type
- SA(s)bc
- Size
- ~47,800 ly (14.66 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 2.9 ′ × 1.7 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Parent body
- M109 Group
- Distance from Earth
- 19
- Image
- NGC 3949.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- galaxy morphological type
- SAbc
- catalog code
- 21P 165
- Commons category
- NGC 3949
- time of discovery or invention
- 1788-02-05
- apparent magnitude
- 10.697
- right ascension
- 178.42708
- declination
- 47.85889
- redshift
- 0.002665
- radial velocity
- 863
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.994
- declination component of proper motion
- -1.944
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3949 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major, approximately 50 million light-years away from the Earth. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 5 February 1788.
NGC 3949 is a member of the M109 Group, a group of galaxies located in the constellation Ursa Major that may contain over 50 galaxies. The brightest galaxy in the group is the spiral galaxy M109.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3949” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.