NGC 937

NGC 937
NGC 937
	DSS image of NGC 937
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Andromeda
Right ascension	02h 29m 28.25s
Declination	+42° 14′ 58.8″
Redshift	0.018963
Heliocentric radial velocity	5631 km/s
Distance	260.9 ± 18.3 Mly (79.99 ± 5.61 Mpc)
Apparent magnitude (B)	15.0
Characteristics
Type	SBcd?
Other designations
	UGC 1961, MCG +07-06-024, PGC 9480

NGC 937 is a barred spiral galaxy^[3] 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.^[4]^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W.; Chester, Thomas; Elias, Jonathan H.; Huchra, John P.; Liebert, James W.; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Monet, David G.; Price, Stephan; Seitzer, Patrick; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Fullmer, Linda; Hurt, Robert L.; Light, Robert M.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Tam, Robert; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Wheelock, Sherry L. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 18913331.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "NGC 937". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
^ ^a ^b "Results for object NGC 0937 (NGC 937)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
^ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 937 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
^ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 937". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.

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