The Big Wheel galaxy is seen at the centre. In striking contrast, the bright blue galaxy (upper right) is only about 1.5 billion light years away, making the Big Wheel roughly 50 times farther away.

Astronomers have uncovered a colossal disk galaxy in the early universe, a structure so large and well-formed that it challenges our understanding of how galaxies evolve. Dubbed the Big Wheel ...

The blue galaxy in the corner of the above image is just 1.5 billion light-years away, making the Big Wheel about 50 times more distant—a staggering margin that reveals just how big the Big ...

The JWST's image of the Big Wheel galaxy, a massive rotating disk 11.7 billion light-years away. Its spiral stretches 100,000 light-years, making it the largest confirmed galaxy of its time.

A giant spiral galaxy, nicknamed “Big Wheel,” as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope from some two billion years after the big bang. Big Wheel’s starry disk stretches across more than ...

The Big Wheel galaxy is seen at the centre. In striking contrast, the bright blue galaxy (upper right) is only about 1.5 billion light years away, making the Big Wheel roughly 50 times farther away.

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 Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly early for a spiral galaxy of a similar size to our Milky Way ...

He and his colleagues concluded that the Big Wheel was the largest two-billion-year-old galaxy ever observed, and is likely much bigger than the Milky Way is today - roughly 10 billion years later.

Astronomers discover large, early galaxy called the Big Wheel – here’s why it’s significant. The Big Wheel galaxy existed within the first two billion years after the Big Bang ...