Red Rectangle

Etymology
Coined by astronomers Martin Cohen and Mike Merrill in 1973

Proper noun

 * 1)  The nebula and binary star HD 44179.
 * 2) * 1987, Beverly T. Lynds, “Optical observations of nebulae”, in A. Dalgarno and David Layzer (eds.), Spectroscopy of astrophysical plasmas, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 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.
 * 1) * 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, ISBN 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.