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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s not often that a nebula looks quite so much like a cheesy special effect from some forgotten ’70s sci-fi movie, but the Red Rectangle Nebula qualifies. After all, this seems to betray a total ...

The Red Rectangle in the constellation Monoceros (the Unicorn) roughly 2,300 light-years away, also known as star HD 44179, is a unique illustration of a proto-planetary nebula. The image captured by ...