Not quite, says the Met Office. This large glowing spiral was spotted in the night sky across the UK and Ireland on Monday evening. Image: Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire. Pic: Keeley Williams ...

Time-lapse video taken from Croatia at around 4 p.m. EST, or 9 p.m. local time, shows the glowing light spinning across the sky in what many social media commentators likened to a spiral galaxy.

Was the cosmic whirlpool a spiral galaxy, a UFO, or something much more down to Earth? Is it a plane? Is it a satellite? Is it a galaxy? Is it aliens? A strange blue spiral lit up the skies over ...

For over a century, astronomers have marveled at the beauty and complexity of spiral galaxies. The largest "grand design" spirals can host a dozen or more individual arms. But recently ...

A blue spiral seen in the night sky across Europe on March 24 was likely caused by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the UK’s Met Office said. Photos taken by Joanne Werrell show the spiral over Lincoln. The ...

A large, bright blue spiral spotted over Europe on Monday night sparked chatter on social media about what might have caused the mysterious vortex. Videos posted on X showed a blue orb in the ...

A large glowing spiral visible in the night sky on Monday is believed to have been caused by a SpaceX rocket launch in the US. The Met Office said the shape was likely produced by a frozen plume ...

By Nazaneen Ghaffar Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. A spiral of light illuminating the night sky captivated observers in Britain and much of Europe on Monday.

A glowing blue spiral was spotted in European skies on Monday evening, causing a stir on social media. The swirls were seen across Europe with reports of sightings from the United Kingdom ...

A blue spiral seen in the night sky across Europe on March 24 was likely caused by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the UK’s Met Office said. The Met Office said the spiral was likely caused by the rocket’s ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Stargazers in parts of Europe were stunned by an unusual sight on Monday evening: a large, glowing blue spiral in the sky. Images and videos posted to social media showed ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a beautiful juxtaposition of the nearby protostellar outflow known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 with a perfectly positioned, more distant spiral ...