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

Dubbed the “Big Wheel ... thought the galaxy was an unhelpful distraction to his other, unrelated studies of this particular patch of the early universe. The giant spiral didn’t look ...

astronomers have identified the most distant spiral galaxy candidate ever observed—a vast, mature system that existed just one billion years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, named Zhúlóng ...

Time-lapse video taken from Croatia at around 4 p.m. EST, or 9 p.m. local time, shows the glowing light spinning across the sky in what many social media commentators likened to a spiral galaxy.

Astronomers have now spotted a colossal spiral galaxy — nicknamed the Big Wheel — that formed far earlier than science ever expected. Discovered through the keen eyes of the James Webb Space ...

uncovering the fuzzy object to be a distant spiral galaxy, and displaying a sea of distant background galaxies. This video provides special data visualization of Herbig-Haro 49/50, as seen by the ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows off an infrared view of the spiral galaxy M51, dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. 33,106 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?

(AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy ... fuzzy to make out the background galaxy and other details.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop. The composite image ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on ... dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop. The composite image makes ...