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Astronomy, astrophotography

The Rho Ophiuchi Complex:

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My Largest Mosaic Yet

Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex
To my eye, this is one of the most beautiful patches of the night sky. CLICK on IMAGE above to view full-screen

A Stellar Nursery Next Door

At about 460 light-years away, Rho Ophiuchi is one of the closest star-forming regions to Earth — practically in our backyard, cosmically speaking. It’s dense with young stars still wrapped in the gas and dust they formed from, some barely a hundred thousand years old. A few of the youngest already have their own circumstellar disks — the raw material for future planets — which is part of why this region turns up in professional astronomy too.

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