Dubbed the “Big Wheel,” it’s a galaxy much like our own Milky Way—a humongous, spiraling disk of stars, gas and cosmic dust. But Big Wheel is even bigger than our home galaxy; it’s some ...

The galaxy, now dubbed "Big Wheel," was identified using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), in an observation campaign that originally had different scientific goals. The research ...

A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible. Themiya Nanayakkara ...

But amidst the juvenile stars, there was one galaxy that stood out as huge, rotating, and structured. The Big Wheel, a rare spiral formation, is turning heads in the field of astronomy.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently captured images of a giant galaxy, nicknamed the Big Wheel, located more than 12 billion light-years from Earth. This discovery, published in Nature ...