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A large glowing spiral which lit up the skies over the UK on Monday night is believed to have been caused by a SpaceX rocket launched more than 4,000 miles away. The growing swirl visible for ...

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 ...

A MYSTERIOUS spiral has been spotted in the sky above Herefordshire. The blue and white phenomenon was seen by several people in the county at around 8pm this evening (March 24). Judith Burt ...

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 ...