don't you just love astronomers being bad at naming things
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i like that they felt the need to explain the origin of the name
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this is like that one picture on wikipedia of the guy playing bagpipes for a penguin
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@Felthry

That is a really danged weird astronomical object, though. It's in the Monoceros constellation, so maybe the unicorns just wanted a single giant distinctively-shaped sparkle.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rect

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