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John: Here's a late answer to your June comment - if you're still checking: While spirals are numerous, galaxies come in various shapes - many ellipticals as well as others written about by Halton Arp in his books, Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies and another, Quasars, Redshifts and Controversies. Check a...

- - and comets? Just snowballs thrown from the ; "winter of (her) discontent".

A late report, just in, indicates that spiral galaxies are really God's frisbees in a game She plays with some of Her favorite angels!

Great websites! I already have 21"X27" mounted blowups around the house & am running out of wall space. Have to start using the doors, I guess. The pix we're getting in this past decade are just mind=blowing!

Thank you, too, Chris - I've added Cloudbait to my favorites list.

:D Bystander: Your reply, including a list of 200 APOD galaxy items, is PRICELESS! How did you do that?! Many thanks! I hope I can save it & browse thru it frequently. I noticed that ARP271 is included. Particularly interesting to me, for Halton (Chip) Arp was a fencing buddy of mine many years ...

Do spiral galaxies revolve (apparently) in a clockwise direction, as does a 4th of July pinwheel or, COUNTER clockwise, as I've read somewhere, which wd seem unlikely - unwinding as it goes?