NASA’s James Webb Telescope Discovers Milky Way's Long-Lost Twin 'Zhúlóng', Formed 800 Years After The Big Bang The James Webb Space Telescope has led to many space breakthroughs. The advanced ...

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 the ...

Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way ...

Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may notice something odd overhead this month: barely any milk in that way.

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size, and stellar mass," she adds. Its disk spans over 60,000 light-years, comparable to our own galaxy ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass." The galaxy spans more than 60,000 light-years across and contains over 100 ...

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain Ancient depictions of the Egyptian sky goddess Nut may represent one of the earliest visual interpretations of the Milky Way galaxy, a new study suggests.

We named this galaxy Zhúlóng, meaning ‘Torch Dragon’ in Chinese mythology.

Despite this early epoch, the galaxy exhibits a surprisingly ... stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way -- both in shape, size, and stellar mass," she adds. Its disk spans over ...