Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.01899675705402326
- Morphology
- SBc
- Coordinates
- RA 37.3670° · Dec 42.2500°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 02 29 28.25
- Declination
- +42 ° 14 ′ 58.8 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5631 km/s
- Distance
- 260.9 ± 18.3 Mly (79.99 ± 5.61 Mpc )
- Type
- SBcd?
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Image
- NGC 0937 DSS.jpg
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- right ascension
- 37.367708
- declination
- 42.249667
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- catalog code
- LEDA 9480
- time of discovery or invention
- 1884-12-12
- galaxy morphological type
- SB:c
- apparent magnitude
- 15.0
- Commons category
- NGC 937
- epoch
- J2000.0
- radial velocity
- 5631
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 937 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda about 251 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan on 12 December 1884.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 937” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.