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 ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant known spiral galaxy to date.

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered Zhúlóng, the most distant known spiral galaxy, existing just ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, which gave birth to the universe some 13.8 ...

Scientists have spotted what appears to be a fully-formed spiral galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, from just 1 billion years after the Big Bang. Named Zhúlóng (meaning “Torch Dragon” in ...

"We named this galaxy Zhúlóng, meaning 'Torch Dragon' in Chinese mythology ... how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass." The galaxy spans more than 60,000 ...

We named this galaxy Zhúlóng, meaning ‘Torch Dragon’ in Chinese mythology.

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way in shape, size, and stellar mass." Another similarity between the Milky Way and this early cosmic dragon galaxy is the ...

We named this galaxy Zhúlóng, meaning 'Torch Dragon' in Chinese mythology ... how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size, and stellar mass," she adds. Its disk spans over 60,000 ...