An Ancient Twin Galaxy to Ours Surprises Astronomers

When we look at the stars, we often forget that we are also looking back in time. The farther we look, the further back in billions of years we travel. But what happens when this time travel brings us face to face with the impossible? That’s exactly what happened when the James Webb telescope captured an image of Zhúlóng, an ancient galaxy from a time when the universe was just a billion years old. The problem? Zhúlóng is a perfect spiral galaxy…