Rho Ophiuchi

Rho Ophiuchi
(Image credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, WISE Team)

WISE, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, took this picture of one of the closest star forming regions, a part of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex.

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