{"id":208779,"date":"2025-03-15T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/puzzling-observation-by-jwst-galaxies-in-the-deep-universe-rotate-in-the-same-direction"},"modified":"2025-03-15T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T20:09:00","slug":"puzzling-observation-by-jwst-galaxies-in-the-deep-universe-rotate-in-the-same-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/puzzling-observation-by-jwst-galaxies-in-the-deep-universe-rotate-in-the-same-direction","title":{"rendered":"Puzzling observation by JWST: Galaxies in the deep universe rotate in the same direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/puzzling-observation-by-jwst-galaxies-in-the-deep-universe-rotate-in-the-same-direction2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In just over three years since its launch, NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has generated significant and unprecedented insights into the far reaches of space, and a new study by a Kansas State University researcher provides one of the simplest and most puzzling observations of the deep universe yet.<\/p>\n<p>In images of the deep universe taken by the <a href=\"https:\/\/jades-survey.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Webb Space Telescope Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey<\/a>, the vast majority of the galaxies rotate in the same direction, according to research by Lior Shamir, associate professor of computer science at the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering. About two thirds of the galaxies rotate clockwise, while just about a third of the galaxies rotate counterclockwise.<\/p>\n<p>The study\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mnras\/article\/538\/1\/76\/8019798\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society <\/i>\u2014was done with 263 galaxies in the JADES field that were clear enough to identify their direction of rotation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just over three years since its launch, NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has generated significant and unprecedented insights into the far reaches of space, and a new study by a Kansas State University researcher provides one of the simplest and most puzzling observations of the deep universe yet. In images of the deep [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}