Scientists find distant galaxy surprisingly similar to our own – and it is further away than any before
(WorldNews Germany)

Astronomers have found a galaxy `surprisingly` like our own Milky Way – further away than any before. The galaxy is 12 billion light-years away, meaning that our image of it comes from when the universe was relatively young, at just 1.4 billion years old. As such, it offers a way of looking back at galaxy formation in the early universe, when it was only 10 per cent of its current age. But scientists were puzzled to find that it was far more similar than expected. Download the new Independent Premium app...