NGC 3938

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NGC 3938 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the Ursa Major constellation. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 6 February 1788. It is one of the brightest spiral galaxies in the Ursa Major South galaxy group and is roughly 76,000 light years in diameter.

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Image: Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.