But the state-of-the-art space observatory has recently imaged two grand design spiral galaxies, and one appears to be the ...

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It has been just over three years since JWST was launched into space and in that time, the telescope has dramatically ...

"It has a striking evolved morphology: a quiescent-like classical bulge + star-forming stellar disk + grand-design spiral ...

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new grand-design spiral ...