Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 51 Ophiuchi is a young B-type star, lying approximately 410 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, northwest of the center of the Milky Way. It is notable for being "a rare, nearby example of a young planetary system just entering the last phase of planet formation". 51 Ophiuchi has a disk of dust and gas that appears to be a young debris disk and is probably a planetary system in the late stages of formation. This system resembles Beta Pictoris, a well known star with a large debris disk, in several ways: spectral type, the presence of an edge-on disk with both gas and dust, and the presence of variable blue-shifted absorption lines suggesting in-falling comets.