These cone-shaped outflows have denser ridges corkscrewing around their surfaces much like strings of lights wrapped around Christmas trees.

MSN: Giant gas geysers erupting from Milky Way galaxy

Suddenly he was in 55-degree water, corkscrewing to the ocean floor.

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Sometimes it appeared to be plummeting toward the earth, at others corkscrewing in a spiral movement, and at still others it looked to be just drifting.

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