beautress
Always Faithful
That would be a good question to ask NASA scientists. If the counterclockwise ones are viewable best from the southern hemisphere like their water swirls down the pipe also counterclockwise, and if the clockwise one is best viewed from earth's northern hemisphere, where water drains in a clockwise motion, maybe we are the center of the universe after all. Or maybe everything in the universe travels in a random manner like travelers gong to work every day, best noticed in large population areas--some going this way, that way, or at 90-degree angles every which-a way. I'm guessing it's helter-skelter, but it could be the direction the nebulas go might be part of mapping the universe into sections we can wrap our minds around if someone looked into it really hard.Just guessing -- I believe the natural rotation is clockwise, but it depends which angle each galaxy is from our viewpoint ....again, I'm not sure. Also, because of the Coriolis effect, storms rotate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere (Hurricanes) and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere (Typhoons or cyclones). I suppose the same goes for whirlpools, tornadoes or anything else,.So you posted a counterclockwise nebula and a clockwise one. I wonder if one was southern pole and the other was northern pole like our earth's north and south poles.