Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week is bursting with stars! 🌟⁠ ⁠ 🔴 NGC 6951 resides about 70 million light-years away in the constellation Cepheus. Its spiral arms loop around the galactic centre, which is distantly elongated, revealing a slowly rotating bar of stars.⁠ ⁠ 🔴 This bar may be responsible for a circumnuclear starburst ring ⭕ a circle of enhanced star formation around the nucleus of the galaxy. The bar funnels gas towards the centre of the galaxy, where it collects in the ring.⁠ ⁠ 🔴 A circumnuclear starburst ring is the perfect environment to churn out stars. Using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have identified more than 80 potential star clusters within NGC 6951’s ring!⁠ ⁠ For more information check the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ 📷 europeanspaceagency / hubbleesa & NASA , L. C. Ho, G. Brammer, A. Filippenko, C. Kilpatrick⁠ ⁠ #ESA #Hubble