Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a ...

An undated image from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope shows an outflow from a nearby still-forming star in infrared light, with a spiral galaxy off in the distance. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP ...

Astronomers have now spotted a colossal spiral galaxy — nicknamed the Big Wheel — that formed far earlier than science ever expected. Discovered through the keen eyes of the James Webb Space ...

The JWST's image of the Big Wheel galaxy, a massive rotating disk 11.7 billion light-years away. Its spiral stretches 100,000 ... using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1559. It is about 35 million light-years away in the southern constellation Reticulum. Credit ...

Nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy contains something it shouldn't: a supermassive black hole with jets so powerful, the spiral should no longer be stable. J2345-0449—as the ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb Space Telescope. This rare cosmic overlap forms a swirling ...

The Milky Way (bottom) compared to the larger galaxy 2MASX J23453268-0449256. Credit: Bagchi and Ray et al / Hubble Space Telescope The cosmic quandary of the expansive spiral galaxy 2MASX ...

An international team of astronomers led by researchers from Christ University in Bangalore, India has uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that challenges our understanding ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality ... spiral arms have been stretched into circles. The James Webb Space Telescope data used in this image was taken ...

Under its gravitational influence, space-time is curved around it. This stretches the image of the spiral galaxy behind it into a ring. NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Everything indicates that this rare ...