Editing The Great Spiral

The Spiral is a name given to a planetary anomaly which orbits a massive blue supergiant star, one of the few massive stars in the sector. The Spiral is nearly the size of Terra, orbiting a massive, red-hot gas giant larger than Jupiter.

Massive tidal forces from planet and star squeeze and stretch the Spiral like pulling taffy, and the planet convulses on a daily basis, its crust rising and falling dozens of meters as gravity twists play across the surface.

Titanic volcanoes blast unimaginable quantities of molten rock into space, and without the massive gas giant nearby, would soon form a moon. Instead, the complex gravitic dance pulls the nascent moon-ring apart, scattering it across the entire system forming a galaxy-shaped red-hot spiral of dust and debris, billions of miles wide.

Such is the speed the debris is ejected at, that the rocks do not cool until well past what would be the orbit of Saturn, and the Great Spiral is visible for light-years in all directions with even a simple telescope.

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