Is There a Distant Axis?

Because the cloud cannot spin in all directions at once. Because it would collide with itself, like two marshmallows hitting. And so that stuff settles out and it finds the dominant axis around which to rotate. So is that why you can look out and see galaxies in different positions? Yeah. The spiral galaxies can be faced on edge. Right. They're called elliptical galaxies. These are fully sort of puffed up three-dimensional spherical elliptical shapes. There was no gas making that disk happen. Here we go. Andrea or Andreas, Burini says this, Hello, Neil and Chuck, if I were an astronaut floating in intergalactic space.

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