The Sombrero Galaxy (Messier 104), located some 31 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Virgo, is a strange galaxy, oriented in such a way that it appears even stranger ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This "twin" of the Milky Way existed just 1 billion years after the ...

Sagittarius C, a turbulent region near the Milky Way’s center, is glowing with hot plasma and threaded by magnetic fields, ...

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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 ...

using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This "twin" of the Milky Way existed just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, challenging our theories of galactic evolution. Previously, it was ...

Large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way were thought to take several billion years to form. Thus, during the first billion years of cosmic history, scientists expected to observe only small, chaotic, ...

The discovery was made using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... Large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to take several billion years to form. During the first ...

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 ...

This is our galaxy, there may be many like it, but this one is ours. Speaking of galaxies like the Milky Way, that wonderful implement known as the James Webb Space Telescope has found another galaxy ...