In a first, astronomers peer furthest in time to observe slow spin of distant galaxy - Republic World

The target galaxy named JD1 was formed just about 250 million years after the Big Bang and was significantly smaller than the Milky Way, astronomers concluded.

A team of astronomers, including those from Cambridge University, has observed the slow spin of a distant galaxy for the first time ever using the Chile-based Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter A… [+2170 chars]

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