Description

Located in the Constellation Ophiuchus, the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is the closest star forming region to earth. Its vivid colors are not visible to the naked eye. In a wide field image of the sky, Ophiuchi can easily go unnoticed and it appeared in some of my own images before I knew to look for it. Now I thinking of it as the crown jewel of the milky way as it is located just off to the side of the galactic core from our perspective.