If we're going to talk about an X, I'd rather talk about this one: the wonderfully weird Red Rectangle nebula, located 2300 light years away in the constellation Monoceros.
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It's hard to believe that nature can make things that look like the Red Rectangle nebula -- but nature is more creative than human imagination.
Here's how astronomers think the Red Rectangle formed.
https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2004/news-2004-11.html
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