Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...

The Big Wheel galaxy formed just 1.7 billion years after the Big Bang, at a time when the universe was only 15% of its current age.

The galaxy is a vibrant orange disk, dubbed the Big Wheel. Its life began within the universe’s first two billion years of existence; given the cosmos’ near-14-billion-year existence ...

Discovered through the keen eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope, this galaxy traveled across eons to deliver a message: ...

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 ...

A study published in March 2025 discovered a 12 billion year old galaxy called the 'Big Wheel,' and the results of the observations call into question conventional knowledge about how galaxies form.

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 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 ...

The Big Wheel emerged just 1.7 billion years after the Big Bang, when the universe was a mere 15% of its current age. This is a time when galaxies were expected to be small, irregular, and still ...