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

The discovery comes as a surprise to scientists, as they believed the formation of such well-organized spiral galaxies took billions of years.

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of interacting galaxies Arp 142. Arp 142 consists of a distorted ...

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

Indian astronomers have identified a surprisingly mature, Milky Way-like galaxy from the universe’s early era. Named Alaknanda, the spiral system — visible thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope and ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

Indian astronomers have discovered 'Alaknanda,' a remarkably well-formed spiral galaxy, just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. This discovery chal ...

The European Space Agency said that the black hole inside the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 has the mass of 30 million suns.

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“Observing the Galaxy is like standing in the middle of a brightly lit city at night. If you look toward the outskirts, the view is clearer – you can make out individual streets, scattered houses, and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Spiral galaxy IC 1954 is located approximately 45 million light-years from Earth in the ...