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Spitzer Spies Double-Helix Nebula Near Milky Way Center (Mar 15, 2006)

Astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope report an unprecedented elongated double-helix nebula near the center of the Milky Way galaxy stretching at least 80 light-years in length.

"We see two intertwining strands wrapped around each other as in a DNA molecule," said team leader Mark Morris of the University of California, Los Angeles. "Nobody has ever seen anything like that before in the cosmic realm. Most nebulae are either spiral galaxies full of stars or formless amorphous conglomerations of dust and gas - space weather. What we see indicates a high degree of order."

The double-helix nebula is nearly 25,000 light-years away from Earth, but only about 300 light-years from the supermassive...

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