NGC 5936

NGC 5936 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Serpens. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 4131 ± 11 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 60.93 ± 4.27 Mpc. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 12 April 1784.
NGC 5936 is listed as a luminous infrared galaxy, and as a field galaxy, i.e. one that does not belong to a larger galaxy group or cluster and hence is gravitationally alone.

Supernovae

Two supernovae have been observed in NGC 5936:SN 2013dh was discovered by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search on 12 June 2013.SN 2023awp was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility on 27 January 2023.