The Red Rectangle Nebula: Wide-field View (ground-based image)

The Red Rectangle Nebula: Wide-field View (ground-based image)

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). 

Distance: 2,300 light years

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA) and Digitized Sky Survey 2

Release Date: May 11, 2004

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