Friday, February 18, 2011

APOD 3.3

Zeta Oph: Runaway Star 
February 4th 2011

This picture is obviously very attractive and turns out to be as equally as intriguing.  This is an infrared portrait of what looks to be a plowing sea ship floating through the night sky.  In this falso color hue, Zeta Oph, which is originally blue, looks to be red.   The star in the center of the picture half masked behind the beauty of the redish tinted color is approximately 20 times the sun.  It actually moves at 24 kilometers a SECOND.  It's statistics like this that really blow my mind.

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