{"id":794439,"date":"2025-03-17T05:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T10:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=794439"},"modified":"2025-03-17T05:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T10:01:08","slug":"big-wheel-giant-milky-way-like-galaxy-formed-unusually-soon-after-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=794439","title":{"rendered":"Big Wheel: Giant Milky Way-like galaxy formed unusually soon after the big bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The Big Wheel galaxy formed 2 billion years after the big bang<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Weichen Wang<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang \u2013 far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible.<\/p>\n<p>Themiya Nanayakkara, at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, says the discovery was an accident. He and his colleagues were looking for quasars with the James Webb Space Telescope in November 2022 when a \u201clarge spiral galaxy popped up\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a nice, beautiful spiral galaxy\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2472476-giant-milky-way-like-galaxy-formed-unusually-soon-after-the-big-bang\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Wheel galaxy formed 2 billion years after the big bang Weichen Wang A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":794440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/794440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}