He initially thought the galaxy was an unhelpful distraction to his other, unrelated studies of this particular patch of the early universe. The giant spiral didn’t look like it belonged there ...

A recent astronomical discovery is revolutionizing our understanding of spiral galaxies. A giant spiral galaxy, located ...

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

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three times the size of the Milky Way. Like our own galaxy, a supermassive black ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twelve billion years ago, in a universe still finding its form, a cosmic giant was already in full spin. Astronomers have now spotted a colossal spiral galaxy — nicknamed the Big Wheel — that ...

Today's rather aquatic-themed NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy, which sits 45 million light-years away in the ...