Amateur astrophotographer Joel Martin captured this stunning view of Bode's galaxy in February this year during a stargazing ...

Large, grand-design spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way are common in the nearby Universe. But they have proven hard to ...

Amateur astrophotographer Dr. Michele Hernandez Baylisshas captured incredible views of the Croc's Eye and Whirlpool galaxies ...

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

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

Discover the amazing similarities between Zhúlóng and the Milky Way, challenging our understanding of galaxy evolution.

An international team led by NSF NOIRLab astronomer Christina Williams has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy known to date. Named Zhúlóng, meaning ‘Torch Dragon’ in Chinese mythology, this ...

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

More information: Mengyuan Xiao et al, PANORAMIC: Discovery of an ultra-massive grand-design spiral galaxy at z ∼ 5.2, Astronomy & Astrophysics (2025). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202453487 ...

Localized bursts of star formation have created the galaxy's fragmented arms that look like clumps rather than the well-defined, continuous arms of a grand design spiral galaxy.

Researchers just found an unexpected galaxy using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The large swirl of stars is known as a grand-design spiral galaxy, and its exceptionally advanced age could ...