Sunday, May 18, 2008

Logarithmic spirals in Space



Typhoon Rammasun (right) and 25 million light-year distant galaxy M101 - each with arms exhibiting the shape of a simple and beautiful mathematical curve known as a logarithmic spiral, a spiral whose separation grows in a geometric way with increasing distance from the center

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