Zeta Ophiuchi soar through interstellar outer space at 24 kilometer per arcsecond , pushing a bow wave of shine gaseous state and debris 12 tripping - years wide in front of it .
The Spitzer space scope make this false - color infrared image of the runaway wiz and its bow wave . Zeta Ophiuchi is a young blue adept about 19 times the mass of our Sun , and it ’s about 366 idle - years from Earth .
Astronomers believe that Zeta Ophiuchi was once part of a binary wizard organisation , but its partner exploded in a supernova . The cosmic divorcement fling Zeta Ophiuchi out into interstellar distance . Like all star , Zeta Ophiuchi emits a unremitting flow of charged speck called solar breaking wind , which compresses interstellar gas and detritus into a sweeping curvature ahead of the star . It ’s the same way that fast - moving boats produce bow waves in water , but on a cosmic scale of measurement .
As it races through quad , Zeta Ophiuchi is also spin speedily ; it revolve about once a day . That rapid rotation is in all likelihood also a side - effect of its fierce ejection from its old binary organisation .
[ NASA ]
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