re: Spiral Arm Rotation

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SteveS — 6/1/2006 9:59:35 PM (archived)

Yes, spiral arms of galaxies do rotate in leading and trailing arm directions.

Check out APOD which has links to papers written about spiral rotation.

I believe there is also a Spitzer photo where a single arm spiral galaxy was shown to be leading edge rotation as an example.

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Question Re galactic Spiral arm rotation... - Elisee Recluse - 6/1/2006 5:40:29 PM
- ELIPTICALS MUST ROTATE - R.L. - 6/2/2006 12:38:39 AM
  - re: ELIPTICALS MUST ROTATE - ER - 6/2/2006 12:57:44 AM
    - I didn't mean to shout - R.L. - 6/4/2006 12:34:42 AM
- re: Spiral Arm Rotation - SteveS - 6/1/2006 9:59:35 PM
  - re: Spiral Arm Rotation - ER - 6/1/2006 11:25:28 PM
- re: Question Re galactic Spiral arm rotation... - phil - 6/1/2006 5:44:22 PM
  - Spin Doctor - ER - 6/1/2006 6:16:58 PM
    - re: Spinning galaxies - Raoul - 6/1/2006 7:24:10 PM
      - Spin ambiguity - ER - 6/1/2006 8:21:51 PM
      - The Grand Design - ER - 6/1/2006 8:06:55 PM
        
        re: Density waves - Raoul - 6/1/2006 9:47:24 PM
        
        re: Density waves - ER - 6/2/2006 1:06:55 PM
        
        re: Density waves - Raoul - 6/2/2006 5:52:08 PM
        
        Constantly catching up with our warped galaxy? (n/t) - SteveS - 6/6/2006 4:59:33 PM
        
        re: Density waves - LJK - 6/2/2006 7:00:22 PM
        
        re: Density waves - Marcia - 6/2/2006 11:26:10 PM
        
        High strange - ER - 6/1/2006 11:12:39 PM
        
        Spiral stellar density waves and the flattening of abundance gradients in the warm gas component of spiral galaxies - ljk - 6/2/2006 3:43:38 PM
        
        re: Spiral stellar density waves and the flattening of abundance gradients in the warm gas component of spiral galaxies - Marcia - 6/3/2006 3:13:23 AM
        
        re: DEG should be: Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy/SDG - sorry for typo. (n/t) - Marcia - 6/3/2006 3:18:55 AM
        
        A surprising shortage of hot gas in spiral galaxy M77 - LJK - 6/5/2006 9:33:21 PM

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