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None of the world's experts no what the strange spiral structure on the left is. Why the spiral glows is itself a mystery, with a leading hypothesis being illumination by light reflected from nearby stars. NASA astronomers think it is related to a star in a binary star system entering the planetary nebula phase, when its outer atmosphere is ejected. The huge spiral spans about a third of a light year across and, winding four or five complete turns, has a regularity that has never been observed before. Given the expansion rate of the spiral gas, a new layer must appear about every 800 years, a close match to the time it takes for the two stars to orbit each other. The star system that created it is known as LL Pegasi. The image was taken in near-infrared light by the Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: ESA, Hubble, R. Sahai (JPL), NASA
Originally posted by Klassified
Seems odd none of the worlds experts know what this is.
Hubble bubble: A delicate sphere of gas, imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, floats in the depths of space. The shell, or bubble, is the result of gas that is being shocked by the expanding blast wave from a supernova. Called SNR 0509-67.5 (or SNR 0509 for short), the bubble is the visible remnant of a powerful stellar explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy about 160,000 light-years from Earth.
Originally posted by Arken
It is clearly an ICBM "Bulava" missile failure!
S&F.
Originally posted by Abductee001
reply to post by Klassified
Very strange photo indeed, space.com say it was seen 7 years ago - I bet they haven't seen another?
My grandson has just stumped me with a question, he just asked "What would it look like from the side?"
I don't think it would resemble a spiral from the side, if so could there be more spirals?
Originally posted by Logical one
Originally posted by Klassified
Seems odd none of the worlds experts know what this is.
Man's current knowledge of the Universe is VERY VERY limited.
Ask any astronomer and they will tell you that there are far far more things that we don't know about the Universe than what we do.
So in answer to your question.......no it's not at all odd that the world's experts don't know what it is.edit on 7-3-2011 by Logical one because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Whateva69
Well after doing my recent orb thread, I’m going with dust particle enhanced by the flash.