The study is published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to take several billion years to form. During the first billion years of cosmic history ...

The image of Zhúlóng shows its spiral arms, an old central bulge and a large star-forming disc, which resembles the Milky Way. (Image Credit: © NASA/CSA/ESA, M ...

Large spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to take several billion years to form. During the first billion years of cosmic history, galaxies are thought to be small, chaotic ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way in shape, size, and stellar mass." Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever ...

Given its recognizable features and impressive size, the researchers have dubbed this galaxy the most distant Milky Way "twin" ever observed. The detection of such a fully formed spiral galaxy so ...

A galaxy from the early cosmos appears to mirror our Milky Way in shape, size, and structure—something no one expected to see so soon. Ancient Light Reveals a Familiar Shape Astronomers have ...

First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, appears to be ionised (meaning it is electrically charged because it has lost electrons ...

Among these was the Milky Way, the galaxy which is home to billions of stars including our own Sun and the planet we all live on. This is our galaxy, there may be many like it, but this one is ours.

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and ground observatories to study a star located in the direction of the center of the Milky Way. The candidate black hole passed in front of the ...

The Milky Way has 44 planets in other star systems that resemble Earth, according to a new machine learning model. The AI Earth-like planet predictor has been created by Researchers at the University ...