Since air flows into a low pressure center, sort of like water going down a drain, it curves counterclockwise. Conversely, since air flows out of a high pressure center, they rotate clockwise ...

while the other one-third rotate counterclockwise. “The analysis of the galaxies was done by quantitative analysis of their ...

If you’re imagining yourself floating above the planet and looking down at the North Pole directly below you, Earth would appear to be rotating counterclockwise. If you’re below Earth ...

About half of all spiral galaxies appear to be rotating clockwise and the other half counterclockwise. The direction a galaxy rotates depends on your perspective. As an analogy, consider a ...

The galaxies identified as rotating in the same direction relative to the Milky Way (counterclockwise). Shamir, Lior, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2025 under CC BY 4.0 ...