Space Daily June 26, 2026 • 18:30

The James Webb Space Telescope found a spiral galaxy, nicknamed the Big Wheel, that existed just two billion years after the Big Bang — five times more massive than the Milky Way, with a spiral structure our models say couldn't have survived that early - Space Daily

JWST observations reveal the Big Wheel as a giant rotating disk galaxy two billion years after the Big Bang, unusually massive and large for its epoch.

The James Webb Space Telescope has made the early universe look less simple again. In a field originally chosen because of a bright quasar, astronomers found a huge spiral disk galaxy from a time whe… [+10689 chars]

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The James Webb Space Telescope found a spiral galaxy, nicknamed the Big Wheel, that existed just two billion years after the Big Bang — five times more massive than the Milky Way, with a spiral structure our models say couldn't have survived that early - Space Daily

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