We report the discovery of a thin stellar stream found in Pan-STARRS1 photometry near the Galactic bulge in the constellation of Ophiuchus .
It appears as a coherent structure in the colour-selected stellar density maps produced to search for tidal debris around nearby globular clusters .
The stream is exceptionally short and narrow ; it is about 2.5 \degr long and 6 \arcmin wide in projection .
The colour-magnitude diagram of this object , which harbours a blue horizontal-branch , is consistent with an old and relatively metal-poor population ( [ Fe/H ] \sim - 1.3 ) located 9.5 \pm 0.9 kpc away at ( l,b ) \sim ( 5 \degr, + 32 \degr ) , and 5.0 \pm 1.0 kpc from the Galactic centre .
These properties argue for a globular cluster as progenitor .
The finding of such a prominent , nearby stream suggests that many streams could await discovery in the more densely populated regions of our Galaxy .