JWST spots early Milky Way style spiral galaxy Alaknanda
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2025
Astronomers using NASAs James Webb Space Telescope have identified a massive spiral galaxy that resembles the Milky Way but existed when the Universe was only about 1.5 billion years old. Named Alaknanda, after a Himalayan river paired with the Mandakini which shares its Hindi name with the Milky Way, the system appears as a mature, disk dominated spiral at a time when galaxies were expected to
Published by SpaceDaily on 12/03/2025
