Red Rectangle

The nebula and binary star HD 44179.

Proper noun

  1. The nebula and binary star HD 44179.
    • 1987, Beverly T. Lynds, “Optical observations of nebulae”, in A. Dalgarno and David Layzer (eds.), Spectroscopy of astrophysical plasmas, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 12, The Red Rectangle is only one example...
    • 1995, J.R. Miles, P.J. Sarre, and S.M. Scarrott, “Red Rectangle Emission Bands”, in Alexander G.G.M. Tielens and Theodore Peck Snow (eds.), The Diffuse Interstellar Bands, Springer, →ISBN, page 143, The Red Rectangle is...
    • Figure 1 shows obtained images of the Red Rectangle. All of the sources consist of a bright core and an extended nebula. - 2000 July, T. Miyata et al., “Spatially Resolved Spectra of the Red Rectangle in the N-band”, in...

Origin

Coined by astronomers Martin Cohen and Mike Merrill in 1973

Forms

the Red Rectangle