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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: 0.208s | source
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symmetricsaurus ◴[31 Mar 25 12:39 UTC] No.43534285[source]▶
The result is only significant to 3.39 sigma. Pretty good chance this is just a random fluctuation that will go away if you look at more galaxies.
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1. BlackFly ◴[31 Mar 25 12:47 UTC] No.43534368[source]▶
This was also my thought, since selection bias seemed like a good explanation as well. The survey only covers 220 square arcminutes out of a total of about 148 million. Interesting data point though, definitely seems like something that one should measure!