JWST discovers massive grand-design spiral galaxy from the universe’s infancy

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-alaknanda-jwst-massive-grand-spiral.html

3 Comments

  1. My imagination was pushed a little bit to see a spiral, but this is one of the cases where I’ll trust specialists trained in interpreting blurred images from very far away. 🙂

  2. Just_Another_Scott on

    >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

    JWST seems to be doing a lot of that. It’s been routinely finding larger galaxies earlier in time that were thought unlikely to exist.

  3. That galaxy cluster reminds a lot of Coma, with these two giant ellipticals at the center. It’s also fun to wander through the image and see the many types of galaxies featured.