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 ...

A mysterious area of light and shadow looms above the southern horizon this month around 9 p.m. local time. Under dark skies and through telescopes with wide fields of view, a region known as the Rho ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the world’s newest and most powerful telescope yet, is celebrating the first anniversary of its first image release in grand style with a dramatic close-up of ...

NASA on Wednesday released an image obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth, as the U.S. space agency marked one year ...

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It’s been more than a year since the golden mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope unfurled 1.5 million kilometres from Earth and began peering into the deepest, oldest corners of the universe. To ...