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James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise

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352 points instagraham | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 10:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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worldsayshi ◴[31 Mar 25 11:02 UTC] No.43533522[source]▶
Clockwise relative to what? Does the universe have an "upwards" direction?

Or is it just relative to all the other galaxies?

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1. mech987876 ◴[31 Mar 25 11:12 UTC] No.43533599[source]▶
My best guess would be using a standard coordinate system such as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergalactic_coordinate_sys...