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- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 14,692 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.017172
- Morphology
- SO
- Coordinates
- RA 37.3646° · Dec 31.6410°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Right ascension
- 02 29 27.51472
- Declination
- +31 ° 38 ′ 27.5640 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5104 km/s
- Distance
- 221.6 Mly (67.93 Mpc )
- Type
- S0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Triangulum
- Distance from Earth
- 67.93
- Image
- NGC 0940 SDSS.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- time of discovery or invention
- 1865-09-26
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 132549773156825344
- declination
- 31.64099000461370
- redshift
- 0.017172
- apparent magnitude
- 9.358
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
- Commons category
- NGC 940
- right ascension
- 37.36464467362670
- radial velocity
- 5104
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 940 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Triangulum. It is estimated to be 222 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 80,000 ly. NGC 940 was discovered by German astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest on 26 September 1865.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 940: SN 2021vtl (Type Ia, mag. 17.3) was discovered by Xingming Observatory Sky Survey (XOSS) on 11 August 2021.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 940” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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