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The blue-toned spiral was in fact believed to be the aftermath of a SpaceX rocket launch. It’s thought it was caused by illuminated frozen fuel from a launch at Florida’s Cape Canaveral ...

A man who saw a large glowing spiral in the night sky on Monday, believed to have been caused by a SpaceX rocket launch, has said it "almost looked like a jellyfish". Michael Coates, from Hexham ...

Britons have been left starstruck after a mysterious spinning blueish-white spiral was spotted in the sky on Monday night. Some posted the stunning images on social media, joking that they ...

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For over a century, astronomers have marveled at the beauty and complexity of spiral galaxies. The largest "grand design" spirals can host a dozen or more individual arms. But recently ...

A logarithmic spiral with a diameter of 500 μm, approximately half the diameter of a sewing needle. Credit: Yilin Wong Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A ...

This intermediate spiral galaxy is located about 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. Known as NGC 4536, the galaxy boasts sweeping spiral arms speckled with bright blue ...

Whether you are new to philosophy or already interested in deep ideas, these ten books offer valuable wisdom and are worth adding to your bookshelf. Written as a series of personal reflections, ...

By imaging Aplysia’s pedal ganglion during fictive locomotion, here we show that its population-wide activity arises from a low-dimensional spiral attractor. Evoking locomotion moved the population ...