... Young Stars in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud . ... The cosmic canvas features one of the closest star forming regions, part of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex some 400 light-years distant near the southern edge of the pronounceable constellation Ophiuchus. ... The Cen A radio jets are not only over a million light years long, they occupy an angular area over 200 times greater than the full Moon in Earth's sky. ... Commenting on the first view from space he reported, "The sky is very dark; the Earth is...