A new brainteaser incorporates colorful explosions but features three pinwheel fireworks, or Catherine Wheels fireworks, which need to be spotted in less than 30 seconds.

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The collision lit up the system like a Catherine wheel firework. Researchers created this image highlighting areas of active star formation in the newly-discovered collisional ring galaxy called ...

They are also known as “Catherine Wheels” – named after “St. Catherine who, according to legend, was to be martyred upon a spinning wheel,” according to Dragon Fireworks, a fireworks ...

Peter Tait of St. John Ambulance said a "Catherine wheel" fireworks display spun into the crowd after dislodging from a post. Two children and one adult were still in Kettering General Hospital.

Celestial firework marks nearest galaxy collision by Royal Astronomical Society Colour image of the collision, made by combining the CTIO H-alpha image with red and blue images.

This creates a spectacular ring of intense emission and lights up the system like a Catherine wheel firework on bonfire night. Galaxies grow through collisions, ...