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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...