Frothy and resembling an ice cream sundae — that’s how NASA described a newly-released, stunning image of a cosmic tornado ...

Now, the James Webb Space Telescope has solved this mystery. On January 12, 2006, astronomers scanning a nearby star-forming region with the Spitzer Space Telescope captured a image of an odd ...

NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope captured the same shot in 2006, with scientists then dubbing the stellar jet “the cosmic tornado.” But it was too fuzzy to make out the background galaxy ...

HH 49/50 was first glimpsed by NASA’s now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope in 2006. Located approximately 625 light-years from Earth in the Chamaeleon constellation, astronomers soon nicknamed HH ...

Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI On the back end of a telescope, looks can be deceiving. Two decades ago, astronomers spied something strange with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope that they dubbed ...

Scientists have observed this object before, using the Spitzer Space Telescope, and they named the object the “Cosmic Tornado” because of its cone-like shape. To show the impressive powers of ...

When NASA's now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope first observed Herbig-Haro 49/50 (HH 49/50) in 2006, scientists dubbed it the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its spiral-like appearance. However ...