Astronomers have found a galaxy similar to our own Milky Way located more than 12 billion light-years away from our own. The discovery of this well-ordered galaxy so early in the universe could change how astronomers think about galaxy formation.
Astronomers used ALMA, or the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array of telescopes, based in Chile, to find the galaxy located more than 12 billion light-years away from our own. That means the light from this galaxy has traveled for more than 12 billion years to reach us, so we're seeing the galaxy as it appeared when the universe was only 1.4 billion years old. The telescope's image of the galaxy and accompanying study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
"The big surprise was to find that this galaxy is actually quite similar to nearby galaxies, contrary to all expectations from the models and previous, less detailed, observations," said Filippo Fraternali in a statement, study coauthor and professor of gas dynamics and evolution of galaxies at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
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