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Galaxies spin clockwise?
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 10:37 am
by fionacat1
I'm a non-astronomer, non-scientist.
Quick question. I've noticed on the APOD that galaxies all seem to spin in a clockwise direction. Is this so? Don't any of them spin in a counter-clockwise direction?
Thanks.
Pete Peterman
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:55 pm
by gordhaddow
Sort of depends on whether we're seeing them from the 'top' or the 'bottom', doesn't it? It also depends on whether the images they are showing us have been 'corrected' for presentation, or whether they are still the reversed images as recorded by the receivers.
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:21 pm
by Empeda2
No, we view many different galaxies at many different angles, as ar as I'm aware there no relation of that sort. Worth a question though!
Galaxies spin
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:36 pm
by fionacat1
Thanks for the replies!
Pete Peterman
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:48 am
by harry
Ok
sometimes seeing the spins of colliding galaxies can give you some form of satisfaction
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041121.html
Both have opposite spin