The Red Rectangle Nebula, so called because of its red color and unique rectangular shape, is a protoplanetary nebula in the Monoceros constellation. Also known as HD 44179, the nebula was discovered in 1973 during a rocket flight associated with the AFCRL Infrared Sky Survey called Hi Star. The binary system at the center of the nebula was first discovered by Robert Grant Aitken in 1915. = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rectangle_Nebula *decrypting message* Hello mother. As you know I'd set path towards the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rectangle_Nebula"]Red Rectangle[/URL] (1458.39Ly from Alioth) a while back. Be reassured, I am fine but I found so many interesting things on the way that it took three times as long as I originally planned... as they say, the path is the voyage, reach your destination and you cannot but be disappointed. Strangely, if I feel sad being away from you, I feel good being so far from the human world, and surely, the blur of being far away helps realize and scale back any current events around Sol and Achenar to what it really is: a fart in the immense and gorgeous solitude of space. How can so much evolution and miracles lead to the human world being so vain I wondered? When you find yourself 1500+ Ly from it all, one cannot but help thinking of oneself as of an alien being, and doing so one really wonder if encountering the human world after journeying among the magnificent presence of blue-white super-giant stars floating in oblivion, wouldn't mean hating it right-away and decidedly bring someone to wish humanity to be the enemy... one suddenly finds compassion for any alien race who would establish contact with mankind, thinking that the joy of finding souls in the universe would inevitably turn into hatred once the lameness of what is done with it comes into perspective. I thought I would be eager to return "home" at this point... but I think I'll keep going, further away from my kind, until I meet myself with the whole. You are here with me always, in every sun I orbit about. I hope you feel my love. *end of transmission*
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