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The star was sent careening by a supernova a million years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Zeta Ophiuchi is on the go ...
Zeta Ophiuchi is about 20 times more massive and 65,000 times more luminous than the sun. If it weren’t surrounded by so much dust, it would be one of the brightest stars in the sky and appear ...
The star, called Zeta Ophiuchi, is a stellar behemoth with about 20 times the mass of our sun and would be 65,000 times brighter if it weren't surrounded by a thick blanket of dust.
Zeta Ophiuchi is a young star, just three million years old, with about 20 times the mass of our Sun. It's located about 460 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus, the serpent bearer.
Infrared portrait of Zeta Ophiuchi taken by Spitzer. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) If you needed proof that one, solitary star can make waves, look no further than Zeta Ophiuchi: a runaway star ...
Zeta Ophiuchi is a young blue star about 19 times the mass of our Sun, and it’s about 366 light-years from Earth. Astronomers believe that Zeta Ophiuchi was once part of a binary star system ...
Zeta Ophiuchi once orbited around an even heftier star. But when that star exploded in a supernova, Zeta Ophiuchi shot away like a bullet. It’s traveling at 54,000 mph (87,000 km/h), and heading ...
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer captured this amazing image of the star Zeta Ophiuchi plowing through a radiant dust cloud at 54,000 miles per hour. Why is Zeta Ophiuchi on the run?
Zeta Ophiuchi is a young but very big and hot star found roughly 370 light-years or 2,175,091,400,000,000 miles from our home planet. NASA estimates the star is hurtling through space at an ...
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Zeta Ophiuchi is actually a very massive, hot, bright blue star plowing its way through a large cloud of interstellar dust and gas. The blue star near the center of this image is Zeta Ophiuchi.
A huge star ejected from a binary system has been photographed slamming headlong through a barrier of cosmic dust, creating a shockwave that shines in brilliant yellow in infrared views.