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This image of Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy discovered to date, shows its remarkably well-defined spiral arms, a central old bulge, and a large star-forming disk, resembling the ...

Among these new findings is Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy candidate identified to date, seen at a redshift of 5.2—just 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

PANORAMIC: Discovery of an ultra-massive grand-design spiral galaxy at z ∼ 5.2. Astronomy & Astrophysics , 2025; 696: A156 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202453487 Cite This Page : ...

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 ...

An image of Zhúlóng the earliest and most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. | Credit: NASA/CSA/ESA, M. Xiao (University of Geneva), G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute), Dawn JWST Archive ...

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The bulge also shows hints of "side lobes," suggesting that this could be a barred-spiral galaxy ... and eventually appear to cover up the distant galaxy.