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It's rare that there's a huge tornado of high energy particles that create a cosmic "tornado" in the stars. But that's exactly what NASA have spotted from the Spitzer Space telescope.
The stars at night are a wonderful sight and it's here that NASA have caught the marvels of space in all its glory.
A young star (just off the top of picture) was shooting unnumerable high energy particles while this picture with taken. The "tornado" illusion was created after the particles steamed through interstellar clouds therefore making the sky glow with a huge range of colours.
The fluorescent tornado "cosmic object" is known by the name of a "Herbig-Haro stucture" and scientists say that it's approximately 0.3 light-years, or nearly 2 trillion miles long.
"Herbig-Haro objects" have been known to astronomers for a number of years however cosmologists say that they have never seen something this spectacular, and are surprized by the unique shape. Physicist Giovanni Fazio said, "I've never seen anything quite like this one".
The multi-coloured appearance of the object is due to the particles being at different frequences (meaning that the particles at the front of the object are more excited than the ones further behind). Thus, near the front of the "tornado" are short bluish streats while at the end there are long red plumes.
People cannot stop to marvel at space.
