Through the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have been able to find multiple other galaxies like the Milky Way which they say should fundamentally alter our view of the universe.
In a new study by a team of international researchers, the JWST has been used to reveal galaxies similar to the Milky Way – ‘flat’ disc galaxies that rotate around a centre point, like CDs, and often contain vast spiral arms – in the early universe.
This involved looking “back in time” ten billion years or more, to a turbulent period that occurred in the wake of the Big Bang, which is just what the pioneering telescope was made for.
What does this mean? Apparently, these types of galaxies are the perfect places where life could have formed.
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