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NGC 4038

EmissionG SIMBAD EmG 1,369 papers

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Right ascension: 12h 01m 53.00s
Declination: −18° 52′ 03.3″
Galactic l, b: 286.96, 42.46
Redshift z: 0.0055928
Radial velocity: 1,672 km/s
Angular size: 5.2′ × 3.1′

In the same field

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Object	Type	Separation	V
[CHP2004] J120153.0-185204	HighMassXBin	1.453″	—
[ZFR2002] 26	HighMassXBin	2.838″	—
[WS95] 442	Cluster*	5.001″	—
[CHP2004] J120153.0-185210	HighMassXBin	6.28″	—
[BTK2009] T352	Cluster*	7.286″	—
[ZFR2002] 18	HighMassXBin	9.358″	—
SN 2013dk	Supernova	15.51″	—
[PCV2006] ULX 23	HighMassXBin	18.05″	—
[MLT2008] S1-5	Cluster*	19.66″	—
[PCV2006] ULX 24	HighMassXBin	20.37″	—
[MLT2008] S2-3	Cluster*	22.38″	—

Provenance

where this card came from

Archive	Read at (UTC)	Record
Seeded from the bulk archive load; no per-object fetch yet.

Machine-readable: /api/v1/object/ngc-4038 · Registry entry updated 2026-08-14.