The Red Rectangle Nebula doesn’t merely look modern-art cubist bizarre. Its very light is strange, its composition is food for philosophy, and it remains a hot venue of current research. Located in ...

Astronomers may not have observed the fabled 'Stairway to Heaven,' but they have photographed something almost as intriguing: ladder-like structures surrounding a dying star. Astronomers may ...

A striking new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope delivers a deep look into a mysterious cosmic object called the Red Rectangle Nebula. The Red Rectangle, so named because of its bizarre ...

For more than three decades, astronomers have been baffled by a mysterious rectangular-shaped nebula around a distant star. Experts believe some kind of 'molecular forces' cause the nebula's strange ...

Imagine smoke rings seen edge-on and you may gain some insight to what's going on with the deceptive Red Rectangle, which isn't a rectangle at all. The optical illusion is the work of a pair of stars ...

15:21, Fri, Aug 7, 2020 Updated: 15:21, Fri, Aug 7, 2020 The Red Rectangle, named after its uniquely boxy shape, sits approximately 2,300 light-years from Earth. Located in the constellation Monoceros ...

Ladder-like structures surrounding a dying star are just one of the features revealed in a new Hubble Space Telescope image of a nebula known as the “Red Rectangle.” Cataloged as HD 44179, this nebula ...