They identified a giant grand-design spiral galaxy, named Zhúlóng, which could well be the most distant ever observed. This ...

The giant spiral didn’t look like it belonged there, so Wang assumed it was an interloper from much later in cosmic time that just happened to be in JWST’s field of view. Upon further analysis ...

“This fuel formed an expanding, swirling cloud that developed into a giant spiral shape as it travelled over the Atlantic. “These sightings are becoming common in some parts of the ...

The giant luminous swirl was seen clearly across ... The entire spectacle lasted around 12 minutes, with the spiral of light dissipating roughly 4 minutes after it unfurled. There was initially ...

A massive spiral galaxy known as J2345-0449 emits powerful radio jets more than 5 million light-years long. | Credit: Bagchi and Ray et al/Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (CC BY 4.0) Nearly a ...

It wasn’t until NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) turned its eye to the scene that the story took an unexpected turn.

A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara ...

the spiral should no longer be stable. J2345-0449—as the galaxy is thankfully also known—was found in 2014, when astronomers in India hunted down a giant radio source known to possess ...