The music of the spirals

Stephen Battersby

Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6693, 524-524

Abstract: The galaxy NGC 2207 has small spiral structures within about thousand light years of its centre — too close to be formed by the conventional mechanism for making spiral arms. An intriguing hypothesis is that they are sound waves.

Date: 1998
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