This week’s binocular object is the Rho Ophiuchi region. Astronomers named this 4°-wide section of sky for the magnitude 4.6 star Rho (ρ) Oph, but to begin searching this area, center on brilliant ...

The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, located approximately 460 light-years from Earth, spans a considerable area (4.5° by 6.5°) due to its proximity. This region comprises various celestial objects ...

Posted: March 11, 2025 | Last updated: July 11, 2025 The James Webb Space Telescope's look at the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. The image showcase a "small star-forming region" within the complex that ...

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The Rho Ophiuchi nebular complex is a beautiful, gigantic cloud of colorful cosmic dust and gas located 460 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. It's one of the closest stellar ...

The repeated explosions from the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi (RS Oph) provide favorable environments for accelerating protons to very high energies, a new international study reports. The results ...

Astronomer Jonti Horner was just seven years old when he saw a photo of the night sky filled with beautiful stars and swirling clouds of dust. This image of Antares — the giant orange star at the ...

“Runner Up” of the “Deep Space” category in the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013 exhibition, this beautiful space wallpaper shows Rho Ophiuchi and Antares Nebulae.