Key facts
- Constellation
- Aries
- Right ascension
- 01 49 47.3
- Declination
- +21 ° 58 ′ 15 ″
- Redshift
- 0.009767 ± 0.000017
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2,928 ± 5 km / s
- Distance
- 123 ± 24 Mly (37.9 ± 7.5 Mpc )
- Type
- E+ pec
- Apparent size v
- 1′.9 × 1′.6
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 37.5
- Image
- N678s.jpg
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- NGC 680
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-09-00
- catalog code
- LEDA 6719
- redshift
- 0.009550
- apparent magnitude
- 8.732
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- right ascension
- 27.4470333
- declination
- 21.9708278
- radial velocity
- 2849
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NGC 680 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Aries. It is located at a distance of circa 120 million light years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 680 is about 100,000 light years across. It was discovered by William Herschel on September 15, 1784.
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