James Webb Space Telescope discovers doppelganger of Milky Way
Image Credit: Luca Costantin
Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy that bears striking similarities to our own Milky Way. The spiral galaxy in question, named ceers-2112, existed when the universe was a mere two billion years old. Interestingly, ceers-2112 features a bar of stars and gas akin to the Milky Way, and may possibly enhance our understanding of galactic formation in the universe.