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

Astrophysicists have long thought that large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way form over several billion years in a chaotic ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

This is a 44 light-year-wide region about 200 light-years from the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, where stars are being formed. JWST's image revealed more than ...

The image of Zhúlóng shows its spiral arms, an old central bulge and a large star-forming disc, which resembles the Milky Way ... using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and ...

It's five times more massive than the Milky Way, for context, stretches across 100,000 light-years. More specifically, the astronomers used new spectroscopic observations with the JWST's Near ...

The image of Zhúlóng shows its spiral arms, an old central bulge and a large star-forming disc, which resembles the Milky Way. (Image Credit: © NASA/CSA/ESA, M ...

Large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to take several billion ... and irregular in shape. However, the JWST is beginning to reveal a very different picture. Its deep infrared ...