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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: 0.873s | source
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keyle ◴[31 Mar 25 10:59 UTC] No.43533500[source]▶
Potentially a very dumb question, but seeing the difference between cyclones and hurricane on earth (clock-wise, anti-clock-wise)...

Does it mean that we are, potentially, on one of two poles(?) of the observable universe, if we're observing most galaxies around us rotating a certain way?

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JumpCrisscross ◴[31 Mar 25 18:14 UTC] No.43537965[source]▶
Which also implies the universe, or our section of it, is rotating. Which raises the question: where did that angular momentum come from?
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1. vonneumannstan ◴[31 Mar 25 21:32 UTC] No.43540213[source]▶
The same place the rest of the universe came from. A slight imbalance in the Matter-Antimatter distribution in the early universe