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> Red Rectangle nebula area.

Red Rectangle nebula area.

author: ESA/DSS/Novapix

reference: a-nep98-00081

Image Size 300 DPI: 30 * 30 cm

This is a ground-based view of the sky around the Red Rectangle. The image spans a square of one degree and was constructed from three images from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 taken in Blue, Infrared and Red (shown as blue, green and red respectively).

Keywords for this photo:

ASTRONOMY - DSS - EVOLUTION - HD 44179 - MONOCEROS - MOUNT PALOMAR - NEBULA - NIGHT - PALOMAR - PLANETARY NEBULA - RED RECTANGLE - STAR - STARRY SKY -