Star Death Spiral

Jennifer Palmer
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New photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal an "unusually perfect" celestial spiral.  

Astronomers think that the spiral is being caused by the death of one of the stars in the binary system, LL Pegasi.  As its life slowly fades, scientists conjecture that its outer layer of gas is being picked up by the corkscrew orbit of its still shining twin.  The dying star is itself is hidden, but it's ejecting material at about 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) an hour, the researchers calculate, forming a new ring in the spiral every 800 years.

"'If a single star was sitting still, it would eject matter in all directions at roughly the same speed,' said Raghvendra Sahai of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory."



Image courtesy of Nasa.gov

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Norway?

Submitted by Aeronautic on Fri, 09/10/2010 - 21:13.
This hubble image looks remarkably similar to the Norwegian spiral anomaly. Fascinating photograph!

I was just thinking that

Submitted by getsideways on Fri, 09/10/2010 - 22:37.
I was just thinking that when i saw this.. Very interesting.

Definitely a strong similarity to the Norway Spiral...

Submitted by Jennifer Palmer on Sat, 09/11/2010 - 12:22.

Daniel's mentioned the shape of the spiral in some of his talks--about how it might be a projection from our collective unconscious...I'm inclined to agree.

I believe that while there's a scientific explanation for this spiral, the fact that Hubble discovered it now, post-Norway spiral, is more than a coincidence.

Peace,

jp

synchronicity at it's finest work

Submitted by Gaia16 on Sat, 09/11/2010 - 22:13.
I was also just thinking about the Norway Spiral when i saw this photo, very interesting indeed. Coincidence? I think not. It seems like there is a massively inclining phenomena of synchronicity upon all of us, "time" (not just as in personal, but collective human experience) you could say, is repeating itself, everything is beginning to line up.

Science and Spirit

Submitted by Science and Spirit on Mon, 09/13/2010 - 01:42.
When I see something unusual, I usually look first to science for an explanation. The Norway spiral has much evidence that it was an out of control Russian missile. The features can be explained by looking at the locus of points a tumbling or spinning rocket would produce. From a scientific point of view, it is hard to connected this to something far out in the Galaxy. Consider the relative sizes; light years across verses a few miles across. To me the physical and metaphysical worlds are both very real. I hesitate however to give metaphysical meaning to that which physical law can explain. The metaphysical does not operate independent of physical law but are a part of a greater system, in my opinion. see www.FromScienceToSpirituality.com

Inspiring

Submitted by John Topp on Mon, 09/13/2010 - 11:05.

The similarity to Norway spiral is flabbergasting. This doesn't have to be a supernaturally created phenomenon to be significant. Even if it is perfectly explainable in natural terms, it is still an unprecedented space image, as far as I know, and highly unusual, not just in its perfection but in it relatively close timing to the Norway spiral and other spirals before and after. Astrology is at its heart about cosmic synchronicities, and this seems like some form of that.

I've been documenting various connections to the Norway spiral imagery in pop culture. The movie "9", for example, was released Sep 9, 2009, before the spiral on Dec 9, 2009. It ends with a scene in which spirits float up into the sky and form a greenish spiral shape. Then a dark circle expands out from the center, as happened in Norway.

I also found something in the shape of Norway on the map that struck me - the northern section of Norway, where the spiral was seen, is shaped like a seahorse, and the spiral appeared around the area where the sea horse spiral tail would be. I've put it all in a thread here:

http://www.evolver.net/group/collective_unconscious_project/discussion/n...

JT

new discoveries

Submitted by ada on Tue, 09/14/2010 - 04:41.

Maybe it's also no coincidence that as we seem to be getting closer to learning the truth about ufo sightings, we're finding viable environments for alien life out in space via new telescopes.

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It looks like it has been

Submitted by gabri_elle on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 06:44.
It looks like it has been photoshoped? Are you surem is an original photo? Witch is the source of the image? Rochii Seara