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Elliptical galaxy in the constellation Eridanus

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Distance
5,552 light-years
Redshift
z = 0.00454
Coordinates
RA 63.4195° · Dec -31.6452°
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Key facts

Constellation
Eridanus
Right ascension
04 13 40.71
Declination
−31 ° 64 ′ 47 ″
Redshift
0.004543±0.00007
Distance
64 Mly (19.6 M pc )
Type
E3
Size
79,000 ly
Apparent size v
3.9' x 2.6'
Notable features
Large area of star-forming regions

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 1537 is an elliptical galaxy located around 64 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. NGC 1537 is south of the celestial equator and it was discovered by John Herschel in 1835. NGC 1537 is not known to have much star-formation, and it is not known to have an active galactic nucleus.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 1537” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.