Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new grand-design spiral galaxy as part of the PANORAMIC survey. The newfound galaxy, named ...

and its extreme age could challenge current understanding of galaxy formation. Credit: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. NASA’s James Webb Telescope unexpectedly spotted a massive spiral galaxy, ...

so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design spiral. The galaxy's name is Zhúlóng, after the Torch Dragon of Chinese myth, and its ...

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang has scientists stumped. Researchers just ...

6 on the pre-print server arXiv. Grand-design spiral galaxies are characterized by their prominent, well-defined arms, which circle outwards from a clear core. It is assumed that the arms in such ...

Galaxies in the early Universe tend to be bulky, but now the James Webb Telescope has discovered an even larger spiral galaxy of "grand design." And scientists can't explain how it got so big and so ...

Zhúlóng: Distant spiral galaxy detected by JWST’s PANORAMIC survey Galaxy spans 62,000 light-years, showing early galactic structure Key find reshapes understanding of early universe galactic ...

Credit: Jain et al. Researchers just found an unexpected galaxy using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The large swirl of stars is known as a grand-design spiral galaxy, and its ...

Riess, D. Thilker, D. De Martin (ESA/Hubble), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble) A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, known as NGC 5643 ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the glorious spiral galaxy NGC 5643, which is located roughly 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus, the Wolf. NGC 5643 is a grand ...