Key facts
- Constellation
- Leo
- Right ascension
- 11 52 42.6
- Declination
- 20 ° 37 ′ 53 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6668 km/s
- Distance
- 311 Mly (95.3 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 3937 Group
- Type
- E, S0^-
- Size
- ~200,000 ly (62 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.8 x 1.6
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Leo
- Distance from Earth
- 96.75
- Image
- NGC 3937 SDSS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.022242
- radial velocity
- 6584
- catalog code
- LEDA 37219
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-04-27
- apparent magnitude
- 11.817
- Commons category
- NGC 3937
- right ascension
- 178.1776750
- declination
- 20.6313278
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- E/S0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3937 is an elliptical or a lenticular galaxy located about 310 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 27, 1785 and is classified as a radio galaxy.
NGC 3937 is host to supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of 3.7 × 10 M☉.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3937” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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