Giant star Zeta Ophiuchus is hurtling through space, creating waves in star dust before him. As you can see on the image, the space telescope NASA "Spitzer was able to capture infrared portrait these luminous waves, also known as the phenomenon of the shock wave.

Astronomers think this star was located was once close enough close to the star companion, the size of which exceeded its own.

But when the companion star is exploded, Zeta Ophiuchus was thrown with great speed, and now this star, which is 20 times heavier and in 80.000 times brighter than our Sun, is racing with astonishing speed in 24 kilometers per second.

From this point of view infrared light, which we cannot see with your own eyes, were assigned visible color.

Zeta Ophiuchus looks like a bright blue star, and the waves of dust before it acquires a greenish tint. There, where the waves are the most tight and warm, they become red.

A similar ripple occurs before the stern of the ship as it moves through the water or resembles the accumulation of air in front of supersonic aircraft that reaches the speed of sound.