The Red Square Nebula (in near infrared light): "This image announces a new arrival in the pantheon of exotically beautiful celestial objects. We have christened this startlingly symmetrical nebula "The Red Square" for its color and form, and also in recognition of its close cousin - the celebrated Red Rectangle nebula....The startling degree of symmetry and level of intricate linear form make the Red Square nebula around MWC 922 the most symmetrical object of comparable complexity ever imaged...One particularly fascinating feature visibile in the images is a series of faint radial spokes, like teeth of a comb, pointing away from the center. Structures such as this are rarely seen in nebulae, and the high degree of regularity in this case may point to the intriguing possibility that these bands are shadows cast by periodic ripples or waves on the surface of an inner disk close to the star at the heart of the system."

"Peter Tuthill, Sydney University Physics Dept"

Red Square

The universe continues to amaze!

This story goes well with the recent hexagon spotted by Cassini on Saturn's North Pole Spaceflight Now Hexagon

No conspiracy theories here, just amazing science! We sometimes forget how vast the universe really is, and accordingly, all that is possible within it (so to speak).

Enjoy, Vince