This spiral galaxy, named Alaknanda, is changing what astronomers think about how — and when — such objects form.

Indian astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a stunning grand-design spiral galaxy that remarkably resembles our Milky Way, yet it existed when the Universe was ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies could not yet exist. Two astronomers from India have identified a ...

Taken together, these studies illustrate that the Milky Way’s spiral arms are not just smooth arcs of stars, but dynamic, ...

The bright binary star system V Sagittae will flare up multiple times before finally going supernova within the next 100 years. When it explodes, it could be visible to the naked eye even in sunlit ...

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The discovery of one of the most distant spiral galaxies ever observed, challenges the current theories of how quickly galaxies can emerge and acquire such complex cosmic structures.