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Incredible Insights Into The Evolution Of A Galaxy Thanks To First Ever Extragalactic ArchaeologyThe spiral galaxy has a small and large yellow bar of stars at its center and two large wispy siral arms extending far away

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Incredible Insights Into The Evolution Of A Galaxy Thanks To First Ever Extragalactic ArchaeologyThe spiral galaxy has a small and large yellow bar of stars at its center and two large wispy siral arms extending far away
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Incredible Insights Into The Evolution Of A Galaxy Thanks To First Ever Extragalactic Archaeology

clock-iconMarch 23, 2026

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JWST Discovers A Milky Way-Like Spiral Galaxy Where It Shouldn’t ExistOn a black background many galaxies are visible. The brighetest and closest are large and shine bright. Many small red galaxies are seen, among them , highlighted in an inset is Alaknanda. The inset show that it has a core and spiral arms.

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JWST Discovers A Milky Way-Like Spiral Galaxy Where It Shouldn’t ExistOn a black background many galaxies are visible. The brighetest and closest are large and shine bright. Many small red galaxies are seen, among them , highlighted in an inset is Alaknanda. The inset show that it has a core and spiral arms.
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JWST Discovers A Milky Way-Like Spiral Galaxy Where It Shouldn’t Exist

clock-iconDecember 3, 2025
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Meet The “Flocculent Spiral” – A Puzzling Galaxy That Is Not Just One ThingThis NASAESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy NGC 2775 shows the central region of the galaxy as a bright wide ball full of stars, encircled by a fethery disk .

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Meet The “Flocculent Spiral” – A Puzzling Galaxy That Is Not Just One ThingThis NASAESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy NGC 2775 shows the central region of the galaxy as a bright wide ball full of stars, encircled by a fethery disk .
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Meet The “Flocculent Spiral” – A Puzzling Galaxy That Is Not Just One Thing

clock-iconSeptember 29, 2025
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Brightest Fast Radio Burst Yet Discovered 130 Million Light-Years Away, In Our Cosmic NeighborhoodAn arti impression show the halfpipe shaped radio telescopes gigantic over canada, receiving a signal from space. Inset: The host galaxy (NGC 4141) as imaged by the MMT Observatory (PI: Yuxin (Vic) Dong), illustrates the location of the FRB within a spiral arm of NGC 4141

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Brightest Fast Radio Burst Yet Discovered 130 Million Light-Years Away, In Our Cosmic NeighborhoodAn arti impression show the halfpipe shaped radio telescopes gigantic over canada, receiving a signal from space. Inset: The host galaxy (NGC 4141) as imaged by the MMT Observatory (PI: Yuxin (Vic) Dong), illustrates the location of the FRB within a spiral arm of NGC 4141
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Brightest Fast Radio Burst Yet Discovered 130 Million Light-Years Away, In Our Cosmic Neighborhood

clock-iconAugust 21, 2025
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People Are Asking How We Took Those "Fancy Pictures" Of Our Own GalaxyMilky Way from Earth.

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People Are Asking How We Took Those "Fancy Pictures" Of Our Own GalaxyMilky Way from Earth.
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People Are Asking How We Took Those "Fancy Pictures" Of Our Own Galaxy

clock-iconMay 5, 2025
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Clues To Our Galaxy's Fate Seen In One Of The Largest Radio Sources Ever FoundSpiral galaxy.

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Clues To Our Galaxy's Fate Seen In One Of The Largest Radio Sources Ever FoundSpiral galaxy.
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Clues To Our Galaxy's Fate Seen In One Of The Largest Radio Sources Ever Found

clock-iconMarch 24, 2025
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The Most Distant Fully-Formed Spiral Galaxy Known Has Been Spotted By JWSTA pixelated face-on spiral galaxy sit a the center of the image. next to it a small elliptical is visible.

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The Most Distant Fully-Formed Spiral Galaxy Known Has Been Spotted By JWSTA pixelated face-on spiral galaxy sit a the center of the image. next to it a small elliptical is visible.
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The Most Distant Fully-Formed Spiral Galaxy Known Has Been Spotted By JWST

clock-iconDecember 30, 2024
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The Milky Way Is An Absolute Weirdo Among Its PeersA mosaic showing tens of galaxies similar to the Milky Way

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The Milky Way Is An Absolute Weirdo Among Its PeersA mosaic showing tens of galaxies similar to the Milky Way
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The Milky Way Is An Absolute Weirdo Among Its Peers

clock-iconNovember 29, 2024
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What Dr Vera Rubin Saw In Spiral Galaxies Changed Physics ForeverSpiral galaxy

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What Dr Vera Rubin Saw In Spiral Galaxies Changed Physics ForeverSpiral galaxy
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What Dr Vera Rubin Saw In Spiral Galaxies Changed Physics Forever

clock-iconMay 13, 2024
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Why Do Galaxies Come In Their Mix Of Shapes? IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5

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Why Do Galaxies Come In Their Mix Of Shapes? IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5
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Why Do Galaxies Come In Their Mix Of Shapes?

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Spiral Galaxies Like You Have Never Seen Before In New JWST ImagesTwo observations of a portion of the galaxy NGC 628 are split diagonally, with Webb’s observations at top left and Hubble’s at bottom right. The galaxy’s core is roughly centered and the galaxy’s arms appear to rotate counterclockwise. The spiraling filamentary structure looks somewhat like a cross section of a nautilus shell. In Webb’s image, the spiny spiral arms are composed of many filaments in shades of orange, with prominent dark gray or black “bubbles,” and there is a blue haze near the core. In Hubble’s image, the spiral arms are a mix of bright blue star clusters, pink star forming areas and dark brown dust lanes, and the core is a pale yellow.

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Spiral Galaxies Like You Have Never Seen Before In New JWST ImagesTwo observations of a portion of the galaxy NGC 628 are split diagonally, with Webb’s observations at top left and Hubble’s at bottom right. The galaxy’s core is roughly centered and the galaxy’s arms appear to rotate counterclockwise. The spiraling filamentary structure looks somewhat like a cross section of a nautilus shell. In Webb’s image, the spiny spiral arms are composed of many filaments in shades of orange, with prominent dark gray or black “bubbles,” and there is a blue haze near the core. In Hubble’s image, the spiral arms are a mix of bright blue star clusters, pink star forming areas and dark brown dust lanes, and the core is a pale yellow.
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Spiral Galaxies Like You Have Never Seen Before In New JWST Images

clock-iconJanuary 30, 2024
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Milky Way Weighs Less Than We Thought – And It's Missing Dark MatterSilhouettes of three people standing together holding hands against the Milky Way in the mountains.

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Milky Way Weighs Less Than We Thought – And It's Missing Dark MatterSilhouettes of three people standing together holding hands against the Milky Way in the mountains.
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Milky Way Weighs Less Than We Thought – And It's Missing Dark Matter

clock-iconSeptember 28, 2023
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JWST Spots Ancient Galaxies That Look Just Like The Milky Waytwo images of the galaxy EGS23205, seen as it was about 11 billion years ago. In the HST image (left, taken in the near-infrared filter), the galaxy is little more than a disk-shaped smudge obscured by dust and impacted by the glare of young stars, but in the corresponding JWST mid-infrared image (taken this past summer)

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JWST Spots Ancient Galaxies That Look Just Like The Milky Waytwo images of the galaxy EGS23205, seen as it was about 11 billion years ago. In the HST image (left, taken in the near-infrared filter), the galaxy is little more than a disk-shaped smudge obscured by dust and impacted by the glare of young stars, but in the corresponding JWST mid-infrared image (taken this past summer)
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JWST Spots Ancient Galaxies That Look Just Like The Milky Way

clock-iconJanuary 6, 2023
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Astronomers Spot The Oldest Galaxy With A Spiral Structure Yetarticle image

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Astronomers Spot The Oldest Galaxy With A Spiral Structure Yetarticle image
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Astronomers Spot The Oldest Galaxy With A Spiral Structure Yet

clock-iconMay 24, 2021

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New "Super Spiral" Galaxies Discoveredarticle image

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New "Super Spiral" Galaxies Discoveredarticle image
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New "Super Spiral" Galaxies Discovered

clock-iconMarch 20, 2016