Hubble spots spiral galaxy that shouldn’t exist: Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the oldest known spiral galaxy, a 10.7-billion-year-old anomaly that by all rights shouldn’t exist. The galaxy was present in the early universe, about 3 billion years after the Big Bang, at a time when galaxies were still forming and normally looked clumpy and irregular.

Image: Artist’s rendering of the oldest known spiral galaxy. The red area in the upper right corner is a dwarf galaxy that is merging with it. Credit: Joe Bergeron / Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics

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