Astronomers are still trying to understand how a galaxy's spiral arms form

The Whirlpool galaxy (M51) is a classic grand spiral galaxy. It was the first object identified as a spiral, way back in 1845 ...
Indiatimes

Social media abuzz with videos of strange spiral pattern UFO

People from different parts of the world witnessed a mysterious unidentified flying object moving in a spiral pattern in the sky. Videos and photos of the sighting were shared on social media ...
SpaceNews

Spiral Pattern Gives A Clue As To How High-mass Stars Form

Map of material distribution in the disk around protostar G358-MM1. The white “+” marks the location of the protostar. The contour lines indicate signal strength. The colors represent the ...
Science Daily

How chemistry and force etch mysterious spiral patterns on solid surfaces

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of beautiful spiral patterns etched on the surface of the semiconductor by a ...
Nanowerk

Physicists discover spiral vortex patterns from electron waves

(Nanowerk News) In their new study ("Electron Vortices in Photoionization by Circularly Polarized Attosecond Pulses"), physicists Anthony Starace and Jean Marcel Ngoko Djiokap report an unusual ...