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The Red Square Nebula rips a hole in space-time

Alasdair Wilkins

Published March 24, 2011, 8:52 am ET

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This might look like some weird cosmic gateway straight out of 2001: A Space Odyssey or a particularly trippy old-school Doctor Who adventure, but the Red Square Nebula is completely real. Just don’t ask astronomers to explain its bizarre shape. [io9]

https://gizmodo.com/the-red-square-nebula-rips-a-hole-in-space-time-5784752

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