NGC 691 Galaxy 

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• NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a beautiful photo of a spiral galaxy called “NGC 691”. 

• NGC 691 is an unbarred spiral galaxy located about 125 million light-years away in the Aries constellation. 

• It was discovered by German-born British astronomer William Herschel in November, 1786. Spiral galaxy is the foremost member of NGC 691 group which is the collection of nine galaxies with different shapes and colours. 

• It is referred to as “LEDA 6793, UGC 1305 and TC 448”. The Spiral galaxy has a diameter of 130,000 light-years.