Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from February, 2025

*The Quran's Reference to the Spiral Structures of the Universe

Using NASA's "Pleiades" supercomputer, scientists have discovered a new spiral structure at the edge of the solar system. Spirals are a recurring theme in astronomy, with the Milky Way being the most famous example. This spiral comprises billions of icy bodies surrounded by a cometary shell called Oort Cloud. Although the Oort Cloud is hidden at the edge of our planetary system and spans nearly 99,000 times the distance between Earth and the Sun, scientists have not had much information about its structure until now.  However, these findings provide important information regarding this structure.  Luke Dones, a senior scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, announced that some comets in the inner Oort Cloud, located between 1,000 to 10,000 astronomical units away, form a stable spiral structure. He added, "We were completely astonished. Spirals can be observed in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars, and galaxies. It seems that the universe has an affi...