* Astronomy

NGC 5679 (also NGC 5679B, IRAS 14326+0534, MCG 1-37-35, UGC 9383 and PGC 52132) is a magnitude +13.0 spiral galaxy located 613 million light years away in the constellation Virgo.
NGC 5679 is the brightest member of the NGC 5679 Group; along with NGC 5679A and NGC 5679C it forms a triple galaxy system. They are listed in the Halton Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 274.

The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Windsor Road, Slough, on the 12th May 1793. 

Right Ascension 14h 35m 08.7s, Declination +05° 21' 33"

Although the galaxies were previously thought to be interacting gravitationally, newer Hubble space telescope images shows little evidence for this. The spiral shapes of the two larger galaxies appear mostly intact, without the distortions typical of interacting galaxies
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