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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'
"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The universe seems to like spirals!" ...
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NASA Supercomputer Unveils Hidden Spiral Structure in the Oort Cloud, Reshaping Our Understanding of the Outer Solar System
In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has revealed an unexpected spiral structure within the inner ...
Scientists Think They’ve Uncovered Mysterious Arms Near the Boundary of the Solar System
The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers ...
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Galaxies, Clusters, and Superclusters
Within the disk, the brightest stars trace out the characteristic spiral pattern. Elliptical galaxies are shaped roughly like watermelons, some round and some elongated. Large galaxies are ...
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The Oort Cloud Forms a Spiral at the Outskirts of Our Solar System
At the edge of our solar system, a host of large, icy bodies make up the Oort cloud, which appears to sport two spiral arms reminiscent of a disk-shaped galaxy. New research founded upon a simulation ...