A nebula that looks like DNA?Researchers at UCLA found this unusual Double Helix Nebula using the Spitzer Space Telescope looking near the center of our galaxy. The research is being published today in Nature.
Aside from just looking similar to a DNA molecule, the nebula looks as if it has a high degree of order. The nebula is about 80 light-years in length and is only about 300 light-years from the monstrous black hole at the center of the galaxy. By contrast we are some 25,000 light-years from the same black hole.
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A nebula that looks like DNA?
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