<ul><li>Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a distant galaxy that closely resembles the Milky Way.</li><li>The galaxy, named Zhélòng, is estimated to have formed about 1 billion years after the Big Bang.</li><li>Zhélòng features a central bulge of old stars, a vibrant disk of young stars, and two distinct spiral arms.</li><li>The discovery challenges current theories of cosmology which predict that large galaxies like Zhélòng should take several billion years to form.</li></ul>

James Webb telescope spots Milky Way's long-lost 'twin' — and it is 'fundamentally changing our view of the early universe'

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