Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex (tavaresjr)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph) · Contains: IC 4592 · IC 4601 · IC 4603 · IC 4604 · IC 4605 · M 4 · NGC 6121 · Part of the constellation Scorpius (Sco) · The star Al Niyat (σSco) · The star Antares (αSco) · The star Graffias (β1Sco) · The star ιAqr · The star νSco · The star πSco · The star τSco · The star χOph · The star ω1Sco · The star ω2Sco · rho Oph Nebula

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Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex

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Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex

The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is a region of intense star creation that is 300,000 years old, for example, although there is a star in this complex that is over 1 million years old! (they are considered young stars because our sun is already around 5 billion years old!).

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It is a dark nebula of dense gas and colored dust that is very close to our modest solar system, 400 light years away. This means that if you hitch a ride on a spaceship that travels at a speed of 300,000 kilometers per second, you will be there 400 years from now!

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The colors in this photo are real! The blue color shows the regions of reflective light while the red and yellow colors show the emission of atomic gas. The dark regions are grains of cosmic dust that block the light emitted behind them.

The yellowish star near the center is the famous Antares of the Constellation of Scorpio.

This image is the result of stacking hundreds of frames with more than 1 hour of capture: 240 light (x 15 seconds), 13 flat and 14 dark (15s, ISO 1000, f / 2.8 on 06/21/2020). Capture in the city of Viana-MA.

Photo: @tavaresjrfotografia

240 light; 13 flat; 14 dark;

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