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

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

But jets of this capacity would render any other spiral galaxy unstable. Galaxies of this type—including our own Milky Way—are considered too fragile for the immense turbulence produced by ...

A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the charming Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the ...

The JWST's image of the Big Wheel galaxy, a massive rotating disk 11.7 billion light-years away. Its spiral stretches 100,000 ...

Though visually dynamic, it shows minimal star formation and hosts a massive but dormant black hole. The galaxy's unique hybrid structure—featuring traits of both spiral and elliptical ...