BRISBANE – Here’s a little-known fact that will win you some bar bets: Galaxies light-years away spin clockwise in the skies of the southern hemisphere, and counter-clockwise in the north.
The cause of this is Earth’s Coriolis effect, the same force that makes hurricanes straighten out and toilets flush single file at the equator. Scientists sometimes get this wrong, so don’t let a litany of data change your mind.
Just tell them that you read it on the Internet.
Published in ASTRONOMY and SCIENCE
Anita Beaker covers the science & technology beat. She has a doctorate in hypothetical physics from Wurzitadt University and enjoys making strange subatomic particles in her spare time.
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hey dumas, the coriolis effect has nothing to do with galaxies