The Red Square.

By gail in Science & Tech on Apr 13, 2007 at 10:03 pm

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(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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  1. Alex
    Apr 14th, 2007 at 1:37 am

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

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

    Hehe… bipolar.

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

    remember these images are human artistic interpretations of computer data.


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