Cosmic Spiral

September 6, 2010 Sean Dague Leave a comment

This is not photoshopped:

That is the death of 2 stars that you are seeing, as they let off material in their 800 year orbit of each other. Phil Plait has lots more detail over at Bad Astronomy.

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