Space oddity: Most distant rotating disc galaxy found
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Space oddity: Most distant rotating disc galaxy found

7 October, 2024

Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as orderly as present-day galaxies, but we see it as it was when the Universe was only 700 million years old. This is surprising since, according to our current understanding of galaxy formation, such early galaxies are expected to...

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