NGC 3836


NGC3836 is a peculiar spiral galaxy in the constellation of Crater. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of. It was discovered by German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel on 29 April 1877.
NGC 3836 is an active galaxy nucleus candidate, i.e. it has a compact region at the center of a galaxy that emits a significant amount of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, with characteristics indicating that this luminosity is not produced by the stars.

Supernovae

Three supernovae have been observed in NGC 3836:SN2017rt was discovered by Pan-STARRS on 10 January 2017.SN2020aqe was discovered by ATLAS on 23 January 2020.SN2021aefs was discovered by Gaia Photometric Science Alerts on 9 November 2021.