Astronomers have completed a JWST survey of galaxies with enough clarity to see their direction of rotation. And they've come to a surprising discovery. Instead of being random, like the rest of the Universe, the vast majority of galaxies are rotating in a similar direction. What? How? One possibility is that there was an overall rotation to the Universe, but a more likely explanation is that the Earth's motion through the Universe makes some galaxies easier to see.

A new puzzling observation by James Webb Space Telescope: Galaxies in the deep universe rotate in the same direction

Lior Shamir, a computer scientist in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State University, published a study of James Webb Space Telescope images that suggests astronomers should factor the Milky Way's rotational velocity in observations of deep space galaxies.

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