Galaxy in the constellation Aries
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]
SN 2015ab, a type Ia supernova , occurred within NGC 938.[8]
NGC 938 (SDSS )
See also
References
^ a b 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 .
^ a b c d "NGC 938" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020-05-28 .
^ 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 . S2CID 11672751 .
^ 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 .
^ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 938 - In-The-Sky.org" . in-the-sky.org . Retrieved 2020-03-26 .
^ "Your NED Search Results" . ned.ipac.caltech.edu . Retrieved 2020-03-26 .
^ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 938" . spider.seds.org . Retrieved 2020-03-26 .
^ "SN 2015ab" . SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020-05-28 .
External links
Media related to NGC 938 at Wikimedia Commons