James Webb telescope captures a Milky Way-like galaxy a billion light-years away

Astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) used the James Webb Space Telescope to capture an image of a spiral galaxy that resembles our home, the Milky Way. The star system, LEDA 2046648, sits a billion light-years away from ours in the constellation Hercules; it contains thousands of galaxies, trillions of stars and countless planets. The ESA released the picture on January 31 (highlighted this week by The NY Times). The space agency described it as a mere calibration image to "verify the ...