NGC 37
Galaxy located in the constellation Phoenix
NGC 37 is a lenticular galaxy located in the Phoenix constellation. It is approximately 42 kiloparsecs (137,000 light-years) in diameter and about 12.9 billion years old.
It may have a companion galaxy called PGC 95382. Its redshift and radial velocity (z=0.03007 & V=8880 km/s) are really similar so it can be situated quite close to NGC 37.
01Group membership
NGC 37 is a member of SCG2 0009-5713, a compact galaxy group. Its other members are PGC 128413, a spiral galaxy, PGC 128414, a lenticular galaxy similar to NGC 37 and PGC 95382. The galaxy group's redshift is probably around 0.031000 because most of its members have a similar value.
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- NGC 37 DECam.png by Meli thev, CC BY-SA 4.0
- NGC 0037 DSS.jpg by Donald Pelletier, CC BY-SA 4.0
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