Astronomers Find Galaxy Similar to Milky Way More Than 12 Billion Light-Years Away

Astronomers Find Galaxy Similar to Milky Way More Than 12 Billion Light-Years Away
Courtesy of Rizzo et al./ALMA/European Southern Observatory
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Our Milky Way galaxy has a bit of a look-alike in an unlikely place: the early universe.

Astronomers used ALMA, or the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array of telescopes, based in Chile, to find the galaxy, located more than 12 billion light-years away from our own.