NGC 938

NGC 938 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Aries, approximately 184 million light years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the Prussian astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest in 1863.[5][6][7]

NGC 938
SDSS image of NGC 938
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Aries
Right ascension	02^h 28^m 33.51968^s[1]
Declination	+20° 17′ 01.3642″[1]
Redshift	0.013653[2]
Helio radial velocity	4065 km/s[2]
Distance	179.2 Mly (54.94 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)	13.8[2]
Characteristics
Type	E3[4]
Other designations
UGC 1947, MCG+03-07-017, PGC 9423[2]

SN 2015ab, a type Ia supernova, occurred within NGC 938.[8]

See also

• List of NGC objects (1–1000)

References

1. Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365. Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051.
2. "NGC 938". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
3. Crook, Aidan C.; Huchra, John P.; Martimbeau, Nathalie; Masters, Karen L.; Jarrett, Tom; Macri, Lucas M. (2007). "Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey". The Astrophysical Journal. 655 (2): 790–813. arXiv:astro-ph/0610732. Bibcode:2007ApJ...655..790C. doi:10.1086/510201.
4. Martín-Navarro, Ignacio; Vazdekis, Alexandre; Falcón-Barroso, Jesús; La Barbera, Francesco; Yıldırım, Akın; Van De Ven, Glenn (2018). "Timing the formation and assembly of early-type galaxies via spatially resolved stellar populations analysis". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 475 (3): 3700. arXiv:1801.05486. Bibcode:2018MNRAS.475.3700M. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx3346.
5. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 938 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
6. "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
7. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 938". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
8. "SN 2015ab". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-28.