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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts) Tue Apr 24, 2012, 08:38 PM Apr 2012

A Tornado in Space

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed an object that looks like a giant tornado in space. The helical structure actually results from shock waves where a powerful protostellar jet hits neighboring gas and dust.
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / J. Bally (University of Colorado)

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2006/pr200606_images.html

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