The supermassive black hole was yesterday's news. On Friday, NASA released an image of a star surrounded by a curious, rare red rectangle. Though the red rectangle has been seen and photographed ...

Astronomers may not have observed the fabled 'Stairway to Heaven,' but they have photographed something almost as intriguing: ladder-like structures surrounding a dying star.

In 2009, a Red Rectangle report in The Astrophysical Journal said that the central binary stars orbit each other every 319 days. One is a normal hot star and not a white dwarf as previously believed.

Astronomers may not have observed the fabled 'Stairway to Heaven,' but they have photographed something almost as intriguing: ladder-like structures surrounding a dying star.

The Red Rectangle Nebula is found 2,300 light-years away in constellation Monoceros, or The Unicorn It is rare example of a so-called proto-planetary nebula - old stars on their way to becoming ...

The Red Rectangle is so named because of its strange shape and striking color. But this stellar nebula looks more like a cosmic "X" in this new image from Hubble.

The Red Rectangle in the constellation Monoceros (the Unicorn) roughly 2,300 light-years away, also known as star HD 44179, is a unique illustration of a proto-planetary nebula. The image captured ...

The Red Rectangle, named after its uniquely boxy shape, sits approximately 2,300 light-years from Earth. Located in the constellation Monoceros, the Red Rectangle was first spotted by astronomers ...

A newly discovered nebula, called the ‘Red Square’, displays a dazzling, gem-like symmetry, new observations reveal. But the nature of the star or stars that produced it remains a mystery.