For over a century, astronomers have marveled at the beauty and complexity of spiral galaxies. The largest "grand design" spirals can host a dozen or more individual arms. But recently ...
A logarithmic spiral with a diameter of 500 μm, approximately half the diameter of a sewing needle. Credit: Yilin Wong Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A ...
This intermediate spiral galaxy is located about 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. Known as NGC 4536, the galaxy boasts sweeping spiral arms speckled with bright blue ...