"Hubble's Spectacular Galaxy Show: Brilliant Blue Arms, Circumnuclear Ring, and Star-studded Snake-like Beauty"

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of NGC 6951, an intermediate spiral galaxy located 78 million light-years away in the Cepheus constellation. Known for its star formation history and multiple supernovae events, NGC 6951 features bright blue spiral arms surrounding a white center. The galaxy is classified as a Type II Seyfert galaxy or a low-ionization nuclear emission-line region (LINER) galaxy. At its center lies a supermassive black hole surrounded by a billion-year-old "circumnuclear ring" that has been forming stars. NGC 6951 has experienced several supernovae events, and studying them helps astronomers understand the galaxy's star formation processes.