Norway Spiral imagery

The Norway spiral has an unexpected connection to the sea horse.

The spiral was reported mostly in the northern section of Norway. No one can truly say where exactly the apparition was located, if indeed it had a specific physical location. Note that all pictures appear to be from the same angle, calling into question if it did indeed exist as a normal 3D object that we understand. One or more analyses have placed it in Russia, however it was witnessed in, and has become associated specifically with the northern part of Norway.

The northern part of Norway is shaped very much like a sea horse, but with a straight rather than a spiral tail, as a sea horse has. If a photograph of a sea horse is superimposed over a map of Norway, the spiral tail appears approximately in the middle of the area of where the spiral was reported, according to Wikipedia.

What is the significance of the sea horse?

Jonathan Safron Foer wrote about sea horses in Eating Animals, released in November 2009, a month before the appearance of the spiral.

"My family lived in Berlin in the spring of 2007, and we spent several afternoons at the aquarium. We stared into the tanks - or tanks just like the tanks - that Kafka had stared into. I was particularly taken by the sight of sea horses - those strange, chessman-like creatures that are a favorite of the popular animal imaginaire. Sea horses not only come in the chessman variety, but also in soda straw and plantlike shapes, and range in size from one to eleven inches. I am clearly not the only one fascinated by the perpetually startling appearance of these fish. (We desire to look at them so much that millions die in the aquarium and souvenir trade.) And it is just this odd aesthetic bias that makes me spend time on them here, while I pass over so many other animals - animals closer to our realm of concern. Sea horses are the extreme of the extreme.

"Sea horses, more than most animals, inspire wonder—they draw our attention to the astonishing similarities and discontinuities between each kind of creature and every other. They can change color to blend in with their surroundings, and beat their dorsal fins nearly as fast as a hummingbird beats its wings. Because they have no teeth or stomach, food moves through them almost instantly, requiring them to eat constantly. (Hence such adaptations as eyes that move independently, which allow them to search for prey without tunring their heads.) Not terribly good swimmers, they can die of exhaustion when caught in even small currents, so they prefer to anchor themselves to sea grasses or coral, or to each other—they like to swim in pairs, linked by their prehensile tails. Sea horses have complicated routines for courtship, and tend to mate under full moons, making musical sounds while doing so. They live in long-term monogamous partnerships. What is perhaps most unusual, though, is that it is the male sea horses that carries the young for up to six weeks. Males become properly 'pregnant,' not only carrying, but fertilizing and nourishing the developing eggs with fluid secretions. The image of males giving birth is perpetually mind-blowing: a turbid liquid bursts forth from the brood pouch, and like magic, minuscule but fully formed sea horses appear out of the cloud."

Jennifer Palmer reports on RS:

New photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal an "unusually perfect" celestial spiral.

Astronomers think that the spiral is being caused by the death of one of the stars in the binary system, LL Pegasi. As its life slowly fades, scientists conjecture that its outer layer of gas is being picked up by the corkscrew orbit of its still shining twin. The dying star is itself is hidden, but it's ejecting material at about 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) an hour, the researchers calculate, forming a new ring in the spiral every 800 years.

"'If a single star was sitting still, it would eject matter in all directions at roughly the same speed,' said Raghvendra Sahai of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory."

http://www.realitysandwich.com/star_death_spiral

Very similar in look to the Norway spiral.