Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered Zhúlóng, the most distant known spiral galaxy, existing just one billion years after the Big Bang. Defying expectations, Zhúlóng ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

This image of Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy discovered to date, shows its remarkably well-defined spiral arms, a ...

The giant spiral didn’t look like it belonged there ... When multiple large galactic mergers occur, this type of galaxy usually forms as a result. “When we look at galaxies in a cluster ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of J2345-0449 using its HST WFC3 UVIS and IR channel filters. Credit: Bagchi et al, Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society/DOI 10.1093/mnras ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like the Milky Way.

A supermassive blackhole—one measuring millions or billions of times the mass of the Sun—was found at the center of a nearby spiral galaxy known as Messier 83 (M83) by the James Webb Space ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms. A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new ...