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Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

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

A galaxy from the early cosmos appears to mirror our Milky Way in shape, size, and structure—something no one expected to see so soon. Ancient Light Reveals a Familiar Shape Astronomers have ...

Among these was the Milky Way, the galaxy which is home to billions of stars including our own Sun and the planet we all live on. This is our galaxy, there may be many like it, but this one is ours.

eventually forming large spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way. Diameter of around 60,000 light years The discovery of a fully formed spiral galaxy just one billion years after the Big Bang ...

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Scientists have spotted what appears to be a fully-formed spiral galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, from just 1 billion years after the Big Bang. Named Zhúlóng (meaning “Torch Dragon” in Chinese ...