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NGC6951

Image: Digitized Sky Survey
Image: Digitized Sky Survey

This is a barred spiral galaxy which lies around 65 million light years from Earth.



Facts and Figures


Object type: A Spiral Galaxy with a Bar with an Active Nucleus.
Distance: 619,000,000,000,000,000,000 km.
Size (approximate diameter): 678,000,000,000,000,000 km.