Hans Van Winckel
(Catholic University of
Leuven, Belgium), the principal investigator for the Hubble observation
team, says: “The structure of the Red Rectangle as seen with Hubble, is
surprisingly complex. What impresses me most are what looks like rungs
on a ladder. In reality these are projections of nested 'wine glasses',
filled to their brim with gas.”
Van Winckel and his co-workers
observed
exquisite features in the
outflow
from the central double star. I predicted this double-cone pattern
in
the 1981
Astrophysical Journal.
The
development of extremely fast computers has enabled me to revisit my
work. The computed flow patterns match the observations in great
detail.
The attached page of
links
to Scientific Details goes into the subject
more deeply.