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Hubble Telescope Captures Sharpest Image Yet of Mysterious Red Rectangle
Space.com ^ | April 25, 2016 07:00am ET | Kasandra Brabaw

Posted on 04/25/2016 4:54:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The Red Rectangle, so named because of its bizarre shape and striking color, is a nebula — a cosmic cloud of gas and particles. In this case, the nebula is formed by the central star, HD 44179, which is reaching the end of its life and shedding most of its mass into space. The source of the red light emitted by the Red Rectangle baffled scientists for more than 30 years. The same kind of red emission was seen throughout the Milky Way and in other galaxies, but scientists weren't sure what created it. The mystery was finally solved in 2007: The glow comes from strange activity at the molecular level inside clusters of dust.

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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: hubble; rectangle; red; redrectangle
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1 posted on 04/25/2016 4:54:13 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


2 posted on 04/25/2016 4:54:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

it’s a tardis?


3 posted on 04/25/2016 4:59:14 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: BenLurkin

Physics is what humans call the part of the God code that we can understand.


4 posted on 04/25/2016 5:02:45 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

I like your comment a lot.

I have been ruminating on God as the master Mathematician and reality as the program He wrote and brought to life.

Everything in existence is so finally tuned mathematically that I find it hard to rule out that we are His massive AI program brought to life.


5 posted on 04/25/2016 5:06:05 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: wbarmy

As Europeans began to understand physics, they mastered gunpowder, metallurgy for cannons, large trading ships, etc. These advances allowed them to master much of the planet, where the natives were far behind in their understanding of physics and science.

So far, so good.

But like Icarus building wings of wax, and flying too close to the sun, now man is attempting to usurp God, literally pushing him aside. We see this in areas such as control of DNA and modifying basic forms of life. Now man thinks that his understanding is even greater than God’s (a God which he does not believe in anyway). We see this in the attempted abolition of hard-learned natural law: endemic unwed teen pregnancy, forced acceptance of homosexuality, trans-genderism, multi-generational welfare dependency, etc.

Man will continue to push the limits, until his waxen wings melt and he falls from the sky.

“Alas, Brave New Babylon”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3058882/posts


6 posted on 04/25/2016 5:16:00 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: BenLurkin

“It’s full of stars!”


7 posted on 04/25/2016 5:25:37 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: BenLurkin

The Red Rectangle was a secret part of the Soviet space program.


8 posted on 04/25/2016 5:31:06 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: BenLurkin
Maybe it's just me, but if I were writing that article, I think I would have asked NASA what their theory is on the rectangular shape of the nebula. All this writer says is that the nebula is caused by the star(s) at its center, but offers nothing to explain the shape.

Even science journalists today are thoroughly inept, it seems.

9 posted on 04/25/2016 5:33:47 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Verginius Rufus
The Red Rectangle was a secret part of the Soviet space program.

Yes, during the cold war that was their one up-manship on the world stage to our secret Bermuda Triangle.........

10 posted on 04/25/2016 6:02:16 AM PDT by varon (There's always room for one more on the hanging tree.....)
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To: Travis McGee
The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. — Albert Einstein See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Mathematics_in_the_Natural_Sciences http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/personal/dabbott/publications/PIE_abbott2013.pdf
11 posted on 04/25/2016 6:03:01 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full Civil Rights for Necro-Americans!)
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To: BenLurkin

That is “The City Four Square”, and it’s headed here. Revelation 21:2 “And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of Heaven....”


12 posted on 04/25/2016 6:26:05 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: BenLurkin

“The glow comes from strange activity at the molecular level inside clusters of dust. “

Obviously another earth-like planet that failed to heed warnings of GLOBAL WARMING!”


13 posted on 04/25/2016 6:26:30 AM PDT by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: BenLurkin
Big billboard:

Eat At Joe's Diner!



14 posted on 04/25/2016 6:31:41 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Travis McGee

Yes, I figure that the universal laws of physics are an indication that the Universe is intelligently created.


15 posted on 04/25/2016 6:33:27 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Stick a fork in America; she's done.)
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To: G Larry
Obviously another earth-like planet that failed to heed warnings of GLOBAL WARMING!”

Those damn ETs just couldn't give up their SUVs!

16 posted on 04/25/2016 6:34:37 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Stick a fork in America; she's done.)
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To: Travis McGee
Physics is what humans call the part of the God code that we can understand.

Excellent comment

It's amazing on how much they THINK they know, enough to arrogantly reject the possibility of a all knowing, all powerful Master builder of the universe.....

My guess is their knowledge is under .01 % of the total of God's mind...

17 posted on 04/25/2016 6:37:25 AM PDT by Popman (Christ alone: My Cornerstone...)
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18 posted on 04/25/2016 6:38:23 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Popman

I continued that thought at #6. The photo is amazing. “Random accident?” I think not.


19 posted on 04/25/2016 6:41:23 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; Larry Lucido

See #6 also.


20 posted on 04/25/2016 6:42:24 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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