As she finds herself sitting alone in the cave in darkness, she contemplates the profound signifying power of
the spiraling shapes she sees not only on the walls before her flame goes out but also in front of her eyes, a result of her brain generating visual signals in the pitch black.
Not exact matches
In this video you can
see the
spiral shape of the animal and how it holds its body when it walks
Those oddly
shaped galaxies must develop into
spirals to explain the distribution of galactic
shapes we
see today.
Young star clusters and clouds of hydrogen that formed in our galaxy help trace the
shapes of the Milky Way's arms, so astronomers are reasonably certain that it has a
spiral structure (
see right).
It remains to be
seen whether
spiral galaxies across the universe owe their distinctive
shape to similar events, or whether other effects can trigger the formation of
spiral arms.
«By taking advantage of the power of ALMA to
see fine details, we can understand much better what happens to the star before, during and after the thermal pulse, by studying how the shell and the
spiral structure are
shaped,» says Maercker.
Pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope of very distant galaxies show more distorted
shapes, bent
spiral arms, and irregular fragments than in nearby galaxies (
seen in a more recent stage of their evolution).
This
spiral galaxy, when
seen in visible light, exhibits tightly wound
spiral arms that give it a pinwheel
shape similar to that of many other
spirals.
Sculpture over the next twenty years included vertiginous stacks of dinner plates, a smooth silver oil can the size of a Christmas tree, a bulbous black cloud with faucets coming out of its puffs, a
spiral -
shaped bed, and the immense folding tables and chairs
seen here.
One of the central works in the Dwan Gallery exhibition was A Line the Length of a Straight Walk From the Bottom to the Top of Silbury Hill 1970 (
see AL00214), the
spiral shape of which reflects that of A Sculpture Left by the Tide.