JWST Reveals Milky Way-like Galaxies in Young Universe
5 January 2023
AUSTIN, Texas — New images from NASA’s newest Space Telescope, JWST, reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars — elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks — at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its present age. The finding of so-called barred galaxies, similar to our Milky Way, this early in the universe will require astrophysicists to refine their theories of galaxy evolution.Read More