The European Space Agency (Esa) has released a stunning image of the spiral galaxy M51, otherwise known as the Whirlpool Galaxy. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Astronomers have observed for the first time a jet of matter spiraling outward from an infant star, as if a lengthy strand of curly pasta. The enormous jet, which shoots out in two directions, is rocketing material away from the so-called protostar and into interstellar space at more than "supersonic speeds." picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A mining crew drills through the bottom of Lake Peigneur into a salt mine. As the lake begins to drain a tremendous whirlpool forms on the surface sucking down kilometers of land and actually reversing the flow of the Gulf of Mexico. picked by shredtone 3 years ago

A cord of two hundred and fifty meters penetrates five hundred water melons forming a six meter spiral raft in the saturated salt waters of the Dead Sea. The spiral turns as a whirlpool reversed from its normal direction. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago