The cause of the strange blue spiral is actually a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1:48 p.m. EDT (1748 ...

According to the paper, taking a picture of this two-armed spiral will be exceedingly difficult. The authors suggest doing so ...

The spiral shape is created by the path that the rocket’s upper stage takes as it falls back to Earth, and whether it creates a visible object in the sky is to do with the altitude at which the ...

A chance alignment in this direction of the sky provides a beautiful juxtaposition of this nearby Herbig-Haro object (located within our Milky Way) with a more distant, face-on spiral galaxy in ...