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 ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.

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 ...

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"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the researchers.

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An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant known spiral galaxy to date.

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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.

"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 ...