ANOTHER SPIRAL APPEARED IN SPACE, LIKE THE ONE SEEN IN NORWAY!!!

[Alesiah]

But it’s not fake. It’s real, and it’s the dying gasp of a very, very strange star system.

The name of this thing is AFGL 3068. It’s been known as a bright infrared source for some time, but images just showed it as a dot. This Hubble image using the Advanced Camera for Surveys reveals an intricate, delicate and exceedingly faint spiral pattern. It’s so faint no one has ever detected it before!

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/09/06/awesome-death-spiral-of-a-bizarre-star/

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1020a/

http://www.abc.es/20100907/ciencia/espiral-perfecta-universo-201009071011.html

http://www.scienceblogs.de/astrodicticum-simplex/2010/09/ein-sterbender-stern-und-eine-coole-spirale.php

[Alesiah]

But is there a connection to the spiral over Norway... at least we see some spirals are naturally occuring..

[Stephen Gerard]

Old news...the paper that describes it is from 2006.

http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/releases/science_pape...