Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

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

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

The image of Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy discovered to date. It has remarkably well-defined spiral arms, a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy candidate, existing just one billion years after the Big Bang at a redshift of 5.2.

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

Time-lapse video taken from Croatia at around 4 p.m. EST, or 9 p.m. local time, shows the glowing light spinning across the sky in what many social media commentators likened to a spiral galaxy.

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space ...

PANORAMIC: Discovery of an ultra-massive grand-design spiral galaxy at z ∼ 5.2. Astronomy & Astrophysics , 2025; 696: A156 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202453487 Cite This Page : ...