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

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

It also fulfilled its primary goal of drawing the biggest and most precise map of the Milky Way, providing the clearest reconstructed view of how our galaxy might appear to an outside observer.

The newly detected Zhúlóng galaxy shares many similar features with the Milky Way galaxy and has been named after a mythical ...

Carrying two telescopes, the spacecraft's mission was to map the Milky Way, offering insights into the composition of our home galaxy and how it evolved, formed and is structured. Unlike the James ...

“It definitely puts a pin in the map ... galaxy’s compact size supports this idea — it looks like it’s only about 230 light-years across, compared with 100,000 light-years for the Milky Way.

When the Milky Way ... galaxy. (Nothing can escape from inside a black hole, but its gravitational field can slingshot matter away at high speeds.) To study the structure of the jet to map dark ...

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Ten takeaways from "The New Golden Age of Astronomy: Hubble’s Universe Today" celebrating the 100th anniversary of Edwin Hubble’s groundbreaking discovery that our galaxy isn ... orbiting a blank spot ...

It maps millions of celestial objects to understand ... It could help scientists understand galaxy evolution, black holes, dark matter, and the Milky Way’s structure. “DR1 already gave the DESI ...