Spiral Galaxies as Enantiomers: Chirality, an Underlying Feature in Chemistry and Astrophysics

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2005-09-16

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0509144v1

Chirality18:17-23,2006

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Chemical Physics

17 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1002/chir.20215

Spiral galaxies are axi-symmetric objects showing 2D-chirality when projected onto a plane. Features in common with tetrahedral molecules are pointed out, in particular the existence of a preferred chiral modality for genetic galaxies as in aminoacids and sugars. Environmental effects can influence the intrinsic chirality of originally isolated stellar systems so that a progressive loss of chirality is recognised in the Hubble morphological sequence of galaxies.

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