Astronomers Obtain Highly Detailed Image of the ‘Red Square’ – physorg.com:Astronomers today announced the arrival of a new member in the pantheon of exotically beautiful celestial objects. Christened the “Red Square” by Peter Tuthill, leader of the team, the image was compiled with data from the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory, owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology, and the Keck-2 Telescope atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
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any higher quality images of this? Preferably used for desktop wallpaper?
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili must be happy just about now. Finally they are proven right. (Lenin and Stalin for those who can’t figure out the names)
Let’s call it…
Drum roll, please…
Rubik’s Star
Should give it a Soviet name… Red Square/Красная площадь…
It’s the Borg star.
NASA
http://tinyurl.com/ajxp5
for larger image see;
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/images/redsquarefull.jpg
I’d love to see a Hubble image of this, it may look quite different. I tried searching the archives, but got nowhere.
Oh wait … I think I found a couple> Surprisingly not much different.
http://tinyurl.com/35d5f3
http://tinyurl.com/33xonn
Maybe we should say it is a miricle of crist and get those fundies to fund some space exploration using this as a goal for them.
#4
The borgs like green lighting.
I thought the Square star had been absorbed by the Enix constellation (lame game joke.)
Here’s a link to the 2.6 MB NASA pic:
http://tinyurl.com/2jovdj
#11 – Not the worst idea I’ve heard all day…
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For Red Square look in Blue State
it’s not a star it’s a bipolar nebula
Does anyone know the estimated measurements of this star?