Galaxies have an overall internal motion called disk velocity. It’s how gas, dust, and stars move around the galactic center.

But we had never been able to see the structure of a galaxy and the interactions between stars and their environment in such ...

In the vast darkness of the early universe, a spiral of light named Zhúlóng offers a new glimpse into cosmic history. This galaxy, shaped like our Milky Way, formed just a billion years after ...

These spiral arms stretch from the nucleus to the galaxy's outer regions, defining its grand-design spiral shape.

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

The grand design spiral galaxy is the most magnificently structured sort of galaxy, with prominent, well-formed and visible spiral arms curving away from a bright, well-defined galactic center ...

Yet Zhúlóng contradicts this. “It is really exciting that this galaxy resembles a grand-design spiral galaxy like our Milky Way,” says Williams. “It is generally thought that it takes billions of ...

Large, grand-design spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way are common in the nearby Universe. But they have proven hard to find in the early Universe, which is consistent with expectations that ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date. This ultra-massive system existed just one billion years after ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an ultra-massive grand-design spiral galaxy that existed just one billion years after the Big Bang.

This image of spiral galaxy Messier 81 (M81) is a composite from NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes and NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer. M81 is a “grand design” spiral galaxy ...