Spiral Galaxy Puzzles Astronomers  A galactic find discovered by
researchers using the Hubble telescope comes as something as a
surprise.  The researchers found a rare early galaxy with
pronounced spiral arms. The newfound galaxy, known as BX 442,
was identified as a spiral by the Hubble telescope.  "We see the
grand-design spiral pattern in this galaxy, the fact that this
galaxy exists is astounding, we hadn't expected to find that,"
says lead study author David Law, an astrophysicist at the
University of Toronto.  Current evolutionary wisdom holds that
such grand design spiral galaxies simply didn’t exist at such an
early time in the history of the universe  Co-author Alice
Shapley of UCLA, commented “We first thought this could be an
illusion, and perhaps we were being led astray by the picture.
What we found when we took this spectral image of this galaxy is
that the spiral arms do belong to this galaxy; it wasn’t an
illusion. It’s rotating and has spiral arms. Not only does it
look like a rotating disk g