galaxy

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Instead, it formed in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way's largest companion galaxy, and later migrated into our galaxy billions of years ago.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

Later, Webb observations showed the galaxy lies about 8 billion light-years away, meaning the explosion occurred long before Earth formed.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

To better understand the host galaxy, Sears led follow-up observations using Webb's NIRCam, its main near-infrared imaging instrument, several months after the event.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

"In such vibrant and unprecedented detail, we see just one very large galaxy with a dust lane," Sears said.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

Our galaxy is a huge disk of stars millions of light- years across, and the solar system is somewhere near the outside edge of the disk.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon