Red Rectangle

English Etymology Coined by astronomers Martin Cohen and Mike Merrill in 1973 Proper noun Red Rectangle 1 en astronomy 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, 0-521-26927-X, page 12, The Red Rectangle is only one example of an infrared object that is detectable in the infrared because of grain emission. 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, 0792336291, page 143, The Red Rectangle is a bipolar nebula with a remarkable spectrum in which emission is excited by the light of the central star HD44179. en 2000 July T. Miyata; et al Spatially Resolved Spectra of the Red Rectangle in the N-band Ryszard Szczerba; Sławomir K. Górny Post-AGB as a Phase of Stellar Evolution: Proceedings of the Toruń Workshop held July 5-7, 2000 http://books.google.com/books?id=FNlxZ3H0sxIC Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001 0-7923-7145-3 352 Figure 1 shows obtained images of the Red Rectangle. All of the sources consist of a bright core and an extended nebula.