An international team of astronomers led by Ignazio Pillitteri of the Palermo Astronomical Observatory in Italy has announced the discovery of 22 new young stellar objects in a star-forming region ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's look at the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. The image showcase a "small star-forming region" ...

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 Region is a large, complex region of stars, emission nebulae, and dark nebulae covering an area 4.5° by 6.5°. Its impressive size is due to proximity. The Rho Ophiuchi complex is only ...

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A star that had been in hiding for 15 years suddenly reappeared in the skies. On August 9, 2021, the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi had a dramatic outburst, brightening seven magnitudes over a period of ...

Although the binary inclination will remain the same from one outburst to the next, the observed structure may also depend on the relative orientation of the binary components at the time of outburst.

“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.

Zeta Ophiuchi has had an interesting life. It began as a typical large star about twenty times more massive than the sun. It spent its days happily orbiting a large companion star until its companion ...