The newfound galaxy, named Zhúlóng, is extremely massive and appears to be the most distant spiral galaxy identified so far. The finding was detailed in a paper published December 17 on the pre ...

Telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope can observe some incredibly distant galaxies, stretching all the ...

Among the important findings is the discovery of very young galaxies that already looked like their more senior counterparts in the local universe, and a recent study has shown a spiral galaxy ...

JWST has spotted a huge, ultramassive galaxy as it appeared 12.8 billion years ago, so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design ...

JWST has spotted a huge, ultramassive galaxy as it appeared 12.8 billion years ago, so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design ...

Zhúlóng: Distant spiral galaxy detected by JWST’s PANORAMIC survey Galaxy spans 62,000 light-years, showing early galactic structure Key find reshapes understanding of early universe galactic ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1559. It is about 35 million light-years away in the southern constellation Reticulum. Credit: Space.com | ...

Riess, D. Thilker, D. De Martin (ESA/Hubble), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble) A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, known as NGC 5643 ...

and its extreme age could challenge current understanding of galaxy formation. Credit: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. NASA’s James Webb Telescope unexpectedly spotted a massive spiral galaxy, ...

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang has scientists stumped. Researchers just ...

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"In this paper, we present the discovery, in the Abell 2744 cluster field, of a two-armed, grand-design spiral galaxy, with a redshift of z ∼4, when the universe was only ∼1.5 billion years old.