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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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 680” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.