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Astronomers have found that spiral galaxies are not randomly oriented in space. They appear to be preferentially aligned. The dramatic results come from a careful study of two huge galaxy surveys, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Two-Degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey, combined with precise locations of known voids, large spaces lacking in bright galaxies.
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Ratcliffe, M. (2008). A year in News... ...and Pictures: April 2006 – March 2007. In: State of the Universe 2008. Springer Praxis Books. Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73998-4_1
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