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Vinony's link graph records 810 inbound references to NGC 940, and connects out to list of stars in Triangulum, list of NGC objects (1–1000) and HD 9446.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1865, Discoveries by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest and Lenticular galaxies.
Vinony links it to 29 Wikipedia language editions.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 14,692 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.017172
- Morphology
- SO
- Coordinates
- RA 37.3646° · Dec 31.6410°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 67.93
- Image
- NGC 0940 SDSS.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- 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
Sources (1)
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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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