The unique spiral in space spotted by the world's most expensive ground telescope
(which has astonished scientists with one of its first images)
A unique spiral structure encircling a dying star has been captured by scientists for the first time.
The spectacular picture is one of the first to come from the world most expensive ground-based telescope
which produces images ten times sharper than Hubble. It was built to study molecular clouds like the one
around the red giant R Sculptoris which is 780 light years from Earth. At 16,000ft up in the Chilean Andes
the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is also the highest such machine on Earth.
