Key Takeaways:
- Galaxies generally exhibit no discernible pattern in their rotational orientation.
- A correlation in galactic spin directions is observed exclusively among very close celestial neighbors.
Ring galaxy imaged by Hubble.
It’s all relative. For the most part, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to which way galaxies are spinning. Galaxies’ spins seem to be related only when the galaxies are very close neighbors.
