The astronomers found evidence by measuring the movement of the dense gas In a remarkable discovery, astronomers have found a rotating disc around a young star in our neighbouring galaxy. The ...

Current models of massive galaxy formation suggest that they evolve as part of a slow growth process, gradually increasing in size through mergers with smaller galaxies and the accumulation of clumps ...

A massive, rotating disk galaxy from the early universe has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. Galaxy DLA0817g, dubbed the "Wolfe Disk" after the late astronomer Arthur M. Wolfe, ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, discovered a disc of gas and dust around a young star in another galaxy, describing it as a “special moment”. An international team of experts led by Durham ...

A colossal disk of ice that looked like something out of this world formed on a river in Maine earlier this week. The city of Westbrook, Maine shared amazing images on Monday of a giant frozen disk ...

Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as orderly as present-day galaxies, but we see it as it was when the Universe ...

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