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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: 0.2s | source
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snitty ◴[31 Mar 25 10:55 UTC] No.43533476[source]▶
If we were on the other side of those galaxies, wouldn't they look like they were spinning counter-clockwise? Or are they measuring spin some other way?
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scribu ◴[31 Mar 25 10:58 UTC] No.43533493[source]▶
The point is that you’d expect a roughly even distribution of clockwise and counterclockwise spins, not all of them to rotate in the same direction.
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1. throwawaymaths ◴[31 Mar 25 11:20 UTC] No.43533660[source]▶
wouldn't it be the case that you would see almost exactly 50/50 if all galaxies had parallel axes and rotated in the same absolute direction?