But this isn't science fiction: Astronomers down here on Earth identified some of the oldest galaxies in the universe, a new study says. At 13 billion years old, the galaxies began to form "only ...

Some galaxies, however, such as the satellites around the Milky Way, remain largely unchanged for billions and billions of years. These include the dwarf galaxies Segue-1, Bootes I, Tucana II, and ...

The Universe’s earliest epochs appear to be written into the small dwarf galaxies orbiting our own galactic home, the Milky Way. A team of researchers studying dark matter noticed a strange ...

The Oldest Galaxies in the Universe. Peering through a wrinkle in spacetime, astronomers have just seen the first galaxies. By Ross Andersen. NASA. October 26, 2015. Share. Save.

To understand the large structures that make up our universe, astronomers peered deep into space. They found a group of galaxies converging when the universe was just 800 million years old.

Durham University. (2018, August 16). Astronomers identify some of the oldest galaxies in the universe. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2018 / 08 ...

Astronomers just spotted a protocluster of galaxies that are older than any others in the known universe. The discovery only recently became possible, because the light given off by the galaxies ...

Astronomers have identified the oldest known spiral galaxy in the universe, which was formed around 12.4 billion years ago, after rediscovering a fuzzy, forgotten photo taken by the Atacama Large ...

Oldest spiral galaxy also discovered Meanwhile, in other news from the early universe, a separate study recently identified the oldest spiral galaxy (like our Milky Way) ever discovered.

Astronomers have discovered the universe's most ancient spiral galaxy yet, a cosmic structure that dates back roughly 10.7 billion years Latest U.S.

The universe itself is thought to be around 13.8 billion years old, and our own sun is only 4.6 billion years old, making these stars some of the oldest in the cosmos.

A 2015 image from the Hubble space telescope, highlighting some of the oldest galaxies in the universe. ESA/NASA. From its perch on the summit of a 15,000-foot tall dormant volcano in Puebla ...