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Esa/hubble: Spiral Spins Both Ways

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In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 7479 - created from observations at visible and near-infrared wavelengths - the tightly wound arms of the spiral galaxy create an inverted 'S’, as they spin in an anticlockwise direction. However, at radio wavelengths, this galaxy, sometimes nicknamed the Propeller Galaxy, spins the other way, with a jet of radiation that bends in the opposite direction to the stars and dust in the arms of the galaxy.

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