Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6951
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NGC 6951 in Cepheus, Jim Thommes
NGC 6951 in Cepheus
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NGC 6951 in Cepheus, Jim Thommes
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This is an image of the galaxy NGC 6951  and surrounding Milky Way interstellar matter. NGC 6951 is a barred spiral with ring structure (SAB(rs)bc) and is about 80 million light years distant. There are molecular clouds catalogued in the PGCC in this image (PGCC G100.77+14.92 and PGCC G101.06+14.750). Surprisingly, there are four Quasar candidates  visible in this image - the greatest lookback time is 10.7 billion light years with a redshift of 2.200. These objects, information, and some of the brighter stars are identified in the annotated image

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