We named this galaxy Zhúlóng, meaning ‘Torch Dragon’ in Chinese mythology.

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

This gorgeous starscape serves as the first of three extremely high-resolution images featured ... the general components of our spiral galaxy come clearly into view, including its disc, marbled ...

astronomers have marveled at the beauty and complexity of spiral galaxies. The largest "grand design" spirals can host a ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like the Milky Way.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed Herbig-Haro 49/50, an outflow from a nearby still-forming star, in high-resolution near- and mid ... nearby Herbig-Haro object with a more distant spiral ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms. A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new ...

The picture of a frightening possible fate has been painted by an international team of researchers who studied a very unusual spiral ... Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb Space Telescope. This rare cosmic overlap forms a swirling ...