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Spiral Galaxy Spins the Wrong Way

Posted by chrisd on from the galactic-spirograph dept.

Ant writes: "The New Scientist has an article about a galaxy in the constellation Centaurus is puzzling astronomers by spinning in the wrong direction. NGC 4622 has bright twisting arms containing newborn stars and lies 111 million light years away."

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