A giant spiral galaxy, nicknamed “Big Wheel,” as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope from some two billion years after the big bang. Big Wheel’s starry disk stretches across more than ...

This galaxy, located at a photometric redshift of about 5.2, has a mass comparable to that of the Milky Way. Zhúlóng stands out for its well-defined spiral arms, extending over 62,000 light ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers have observed a giant spiral galaxy designated ADF22.A1.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a giant spiral galaxy that shouldn't exist. If it finds more, scientists may have to rethink everything they know about galaxy formation.

An older image of the largest known spiral galaxy ever detected shows the importance of using data from multiple space telescopes. ... is a composite of a giant barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 6872.

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 ...

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) ...

The giant spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256. Credit: Hubble Space Telescope. Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX ...

A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, straight structure filled with stars across the galaxy's center.

If you were to spring from Earth so high you could glance down at the entire Milky Way, our home galaxy would look like a spinning pinwheel. In it, some 100 billion stars are sprinkled across some ...