Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex

More biomass needs to be launched to the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, mainly because its larger distance.

In 2011 researchers reported finding 30 to 40 brown dwarf objects in the cloud and in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex.

The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is a dark nebula of gas and dust that is located 1 south of the star ρ Ophiuchi of the constellation Ophiuchus.

Alternatively, directed panspermia may aim at star-forming interstellar clouds such as Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex (427 ly), that contains clusters of new stars too young to originate local life (425 infrared-emitting young stars aged 100,000 to a million years).

A biomass on the order of 300 tons would need to be launched to seed a protostellar condensation or an accretion disc, but two hundred kilograms would be sufficient to seed a young stellar object in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex.

It consists of a blue subgiant and a blue dwarf, both of which are of class B. Due to its location in the vicinity of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, its magnitude has been dimmed down by 2 magnitudes.