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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Looks to me like we just happen to be in the right place relative to this star, so we’re just about exactly perpendicular to the star’s poles. The “rectangle” is two cones of matter being blown off the poles of the star. The diagonal lines are just the walls of the two cones, which are tenuous enough that they only seem thick at the point where we’re looking at the edges of the cone.
Probably The Borg
LOL. Yeah, the light behind them as they head to our planet at Warp 11.
Bingo. The order Amid what should be Chaos, I can only attribute to a planned design. A baffling one, to be sure, but obviously designed nevertheless.
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