The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a new grand-design spiral galaxy. It has been named Zhúlóng, after a giant red solar dragon and god from Chinese mythology. It is an incredible ...
The finding was detailed in a paper published Dec. 6 on the pre-print server arXiv. Grand-design spiral galaxies are characterized by their prominent, well-defined arms, which circle outwards from ...
JWST has spotted a huge, ultramassive galaxy as it appeared 12.8 billion years ago, so intricately structured that it can only belong to the most spectacular category of galaxies: the grand design ...