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  • The Most Distant Fully-Formed Spiral Galaxy Known Has Been Spotted By JWST...And it has an epic name.

    12/30/2024 12:30:02 PM PST · by Red Badger · 37 replies
    IFL Science ^ | December 30, 2024 | Dr. Alfredo Carpineti
    The distant galaxy has all the structure of a modern spiral galaxy (the object next to it is another galaxy in the foreground). Image credit: Xiao et al., arXiv 2024 (CC BY 4.0) It has been just over three years since JWST was launched into space and in that time, the telescope has dramatically expanded our understanding of the distant universe. Among the important findings is the discovery of very young galaxies that already looked like their more senior counterparts in the local universe, and a recent study has shown a spiral galaxy that already had everything modern ones do...