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As imaged by the space telescope's sensitive Advanced Camera for Surveys, this striking pattern is formed by material being ejected from a dying star. But this isn't a lone star; there's a second star -- a binary partner -- orbiting with it and modulating the expanding gas.
I wonder if people will associate this with the terrestrial spirals that have been seen, like the "Norway Spiral".