Astronomers discover galaxies spin like clockwork

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This Hubble image reveals the gigantic Pinwheel galaxy, one of the best known examples of "grand design spirals", and its supergiant star-forming regions in unprecedented detail. The image is the largest and most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy ever released from Hubble. Credit: ESA/NASA
Astronomers have discovered that all galaxies rotate once every billion years, no matter how big they are.8-astronomersd.jpg