As the vibrant hues of autumn begin to grace our gardens, it’s the perfect time to embark on creating a fall herb spiral-a compact, aesthetically pleasing, and highly efficient gardening structure.

Now scientists are learning even more about its appearance using a new supercomputer. While researching, they discovered the Oort cloud may have a pair of spiral arms that make it resemble a ...

The spiral structure, visible here behind the sun in a scene from the show, surprised scientists and animators when they saw it projected on the planetarium's dome during preproduction.

An artist impression of the Milky Way showcasing the dusty spiral structures similar to The Big Wheel. Credit: ESO. Studying disk galaxies, like the Milky Way and the newly discovered Big Wheel ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like our Milky Way - a spiral structure with a straight bar of stars and ...

"Our new maps nicely demonstrate that the spiral structure in the gas disk of the Milky Way is highly flocculent, and that the overall structure of the disk is complex," Dr. Craig adds.

Bon-Chul Koo, Geumsook Park, Woong-Tae Kim, Myung Gyoon Lee, Dana S. Balser, Trey V. Wenger, Tracing the Spiral Structure of the Outer Milky Way with Dense Atomic Hydrogen Gas, Publications of the ...

The spiral structure is further maintained by the higher density of gas and dust in the arms, which triggers star production within the arms. Protoplanetary disks have a similar structure to young ...

(via Dr. Becky) Wherever we look in the Universe we see spiral galaxies. 70% of all galaxies today have this spiral structure that show up in their stars and their gas that’s used to make more ...