"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

It’s not every day the universe surprises astronomers. But a recent discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has done just that. A galaxy from the early cosmos appears to mirror our ...

The Milky Way may have a twin. The discovery of the most distant spiral galaxy to date may change the way we think about both ...

The JWST's image of the Big Wheel galaxy, a massive rotating disk 11.7 billion light-years away. Its spiral stretches 100,000 ... times more massive than the Milky Way, for context, stretches ...

The Milky Way's disk is slightly wider at 100,000 light-years wide with a stellar mass estimated at around 46 billion solar masses. A zoomed in image of Zhúlóng the most distant spiral galaxy ...

have spotted a galaxy with distinct spiral arms. Experts reckon it's the most distant 'twin' galaxy to our own Milky Way that's ever been discovered, and how cool is it that we've got technology that ...

"If a spiral galaxy can not only survive but thrive under such extreme conditions, what does this mean for the future of galaxies like our own Milky Way?" Bagchi said. Despite the violent energy ...