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JWST discovers Zhúlóng, the earliest Milky Way-like galaxy, 800 million years after the Big Bang explosion occurred.
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen, a "Milky Way twin" that existed 1 ...
Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured an unprecedentedly sharp image of planetary nebula NGC 1514, revealing intricate details of its dying star. Located 1,500 light-years away, the nebula ...
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 ...
A newfound object uncovered in the early universe by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is challenging long-held ideas about how galaxies form. Dubbed the “Big Wheel,” it’s a galaxy ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a plume of dust and gas from a newborn star. NASA said in a statement it was ...
But a recent discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has done just that. A galaxy from the early cosmos appears to mirror our Milky Way in shape, size, and structure—something no ...
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 ...
The newly detected Zhúlóng galaxy shares many similar features with the Milky Way galaxy and has been named after a mythical ...
NASA's latest discovery once again proves how incredible space is. A collision between a spiral galaxy and a jet from a young star has been witnessed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a ...