#ophiuchus — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ophiuchus, aggregated by home.social.
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and why SHOULDN'T we ret-constellation #Ophiuchus into 2001 VMA Britney Spears??? 😄 🐍
... for more *interesting* ideas like this, check out this week's episode on trying to retcon the #Serpens myth: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/serpens-myths-and-retconstellations
#PopCulture #silly #storytelling #constellations #humor #BritneySpears #VMA #Snakes
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New #mythology episode on the #constellation #Serpens is out now!
Since we already covered the #mythology of this constellation when we covered #Ophiuchus (check out the season 1 back catalog), we were excited to spend some time with Ophion & the mother of monsters herself Echidna this week.
Check out the episode here: https://starrytimepodcast.podbean.com/e/serpens-myths-and-retconstellations
#podcast #Legends #lore #StarLore #monsters #GreekMythology #MysteryCult #orphic #Orpheus #Echidna #podcast #Storytelling
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#MPIfR:
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Rätselhafte ultraviolette Strahlung in den Geburtsstätten von SternenBeobachtungen von fünf jungen Sternen in der Ophiuchus-Region mit dem James Webb Space Telescope
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"Die Ergebnisse .. zeigen, dass die Produktion von UV-Strahlung in den Modellen zur Beschreibung der Sternentstehung berücksichtigt werden muss."https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressemeldungen/2025/7?c=8727
25.11.2025
#Astronomie #Astrophysik #JWST #MIRI #Ophiuchus #Protostern #Sternentstehung #UV #Wasserstoff #Weltraumteleskop
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Is it just me or does this Rho Ophiuchus cloud complex look like some weird alien headed octopus?
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Fun #astronomy fact I just noticed: the constellation #Ophiuchus, the "snake bearer", is named al-Hawwa (حواء) in Arabic, which is derived from (and the Arabic form of) the Hebrew proper name Heva (חוה), i.e. Eve, who, well, has a certain connection to snakes.
This appears to be a case where a loanword was adopted specifically to take advantage of a metonymic semantic shift.
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@n8chz @recursive I have not, because I have no idea what that is! 🫣 What is #Ophiuchus ?
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NGC 6633
Magnitude 4.6 open cluster located 1,040 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. Nearly as large as the full moon, the cluster contains 38 known stars; the brightest star is of magnitude 7.6. Its age has been estimated at 660 million years.
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #ngc6633 #cluster #ophiuchus
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NGC 6384
Intermediate barred spiral galaxy located 77 million light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus.
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #ngc6384 #galaxy #ophiuchus
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M107
Magnitude 7.9 globular cluster located 20,900 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in April 1782, then independently by William Herschel in 1793.
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #m107 #cluster #ophiuchus #messier #messiermarathon
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M9
Magnitude 7.7 globular cluster located 25,800 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764.
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #m9 #cluster #ophiuchus #messier #messiermarathon
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NGC 6572 Blue Racquetball Nebula
Magnitude 8.1 planetary nebula located in the constellation Ophiuchus. It is a young planetary nebula and only began to shed its gases a few thousand years ago. Because of this, the material is still quite concentrated, which explains the nebula's abnormal brightness.
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #ngc6572 #nebula #ophiuchus
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IC 4665
Magnitude 4.2 open cluster located 1,400 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux in 1745. It is one of the brightest clusters not to be cataloged by Charles Messier or William Herschel, probably because it is so loose and coarse.
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #ic4665 #cluster #ophiuchus
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M14
Magnitude 7.6 globular cluster located 30,300 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764.
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #m14 #cluster #ophiuchus #messier #messiermarathon
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M12
Magnitude 6.7 globular cluster located 16,440 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764.
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #m12 #cluster #ophiuchus #messier #messiermarathon
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M10
Magnitude 6.6 globular cluster located 14,300 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. The cluster is currently located about 16,000 light-years from the Galactic Center. It completes an orbit around the Milky Way galaxy about every 140 million years, during which it crosses the plane of the galactic disk every 53 million years.
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #m10 #cluster #ophiuchus #messier #messiermarathon
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M14
Magnitude 7.6 globular cluster located 30,300 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. It contains several hundred thousand stars and is 100 light-years across.
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #m14 #cluster #ophiuchus #messier #messiermarathon
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M10
Magnitude 6.6 globular cluster located 14,300 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764 and has a diameter of 83 light-years.
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #m10 #cluster #ophiuchus #messier #messiermarathon
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M12
Magnitude 6.7 globular cluster located 16,400 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764 who described it as a "nebula without stars".
#astrophotography #astronomy #space #unistellar #citizenscience #m12 #cluster #ophiuchus #messier #messiermarathon
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@sunflowers Oh yeah! According to that I’m actually the ‘new’ sign, #Ophiuchus. Which I thought was kind of cool. Lol. But I still consider myself a #Sagittarius
