"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral arms ...

As shelled members of the taxonomic class Gastropods within the phylum Mollusca, snails are found on both land and in the sea. Typically, they have a spiral-shaped shell into which they retract when ...

Credit: Science Photo Library/Alamy Stock Photo The Oort cloud — the mysterious shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system — might sport a pair of spiral arms that make it resemble a ...

Recent studies suggest that this distant shell of icy bodies may have spiral arms, resembling a miniature galaxy. Using supercomputer models, researchers are now exploring its enigmatic shape ...

The Oort cloud is traditionally thought of as a vast shell of perhaps trillions of icy ... "The disk, when viewed from a distance, would appear as a spiral structure with two twisted arms ...

Unfortunately, they are not observable with the naked eye. According to studies made by experts, the Oort Cloud may resemble a small galaxy with spiral arms rather than the straightforward spherical ...

The NASA boffins in white coats and thick-rimmed glasses have detected new signals that show the Oort cloud - the spooky shell of icy objects ... a loose spiral that resembles a miniature ...

Feb. 23 (UPI) --A shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system known as the Oort cloud has a pair of spiral arms that resemble a miniature galaxy, new research suggests. Until now ...

The cloud is believed to appear as a shell of planetesimals — a small celestial body or planet — that surrounds ... Pairing an analytic model with the supercomputer simulation, they concluded that the ...