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Hot_Egg5840 t1_jefyubo wrote

Unless the spin rate was so fast that the spiral would be indistinguishable at our distance.

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ssauronn t1_jegj2gz wrote

If that happened they’d just call it a disk of matter and move on - it’s noteworthy precisely because it is distinguishable from one another.

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