The Red Square.

Posted by gail in Science & Tech on April 13, 2007 at 10:03 pm


redsquare

(Image: Peter Tuthill/University of Sydney)

This is a bipolar nebula, about 5,000 light years distant, which appears as a red square but is in fact "an hour-glass shaped cloud of gas and dust." Via News in Science


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4 comments to "The Red Square."

  1. Alex
    April 14th, 2007 at 1:37 am

    First hexagon, now square? Someone's playing a joke on us humans!

  2. owen
    April 14th, 2007 at 2:57 am

    Hehe... bipolar.

  3. Luciano
    April 14th, 2007 at 11:54 am

    http://www.lucianobove.blogspot.com/

    Ciao! The image is cool!

  4. Dee
    April 16th, 2007 at 9:32 pm

    remember these images are human artistic interpretations of computer data.


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