"Zhúlóng shows that mature galaxies emerged much earlier than expected in the first billion years after the Big Bang," writes a team led by astronomer Mengyuan Xiao of the University of Geneva in ...

with spiral arms starting at diametrically opposite points), already at 1 billion years after the Big Bang," they write in their paper. In addition, it's quite large for a galaxy in the early ...

Due to a recent study, the JWST has found a new spiral galaxy that contains all the elements of modern galaxies, and only 1.13 billion years after the Big Bang. Zhulong has a shape similar to the ...

Spiral galaxies have a thin ... galaxies are called dwarfs while the largest are called giants. Our Milky Way Galaxy is one of three large galaxies in the Local Group of Galaxies.

Our Milky Way is a spiral galaxy rotating around a central point. Our Sun is on one of the spiral arms as shown in the diagram: The Sun's orbital speed is determined almost entirely by the ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has released a new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430 ... while orange spots in the image show distant background galaxies. Hubble has been operational for over ...