Kartheik Iyer, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, was the co-author on the paper on Firefly Sparkle. It ...

The Firefly Sparkle galaxy is so named because it resembles a "sparkle" or swarm of lightning bugs on a warm summer night.

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“By examining these photos of the Firefly Sparkle, we can better understand how our own Milky Way took shape. ...There is so much going on inside this tiny galaxy, including so many different ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ago. This "Firefly Sparkle" galaxy could reveal how our own galaxy evolved.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit imaged the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds as the International Space Station cruised 260 miles ...

Astronomers have detected a young binary star system, D9, orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's centre. This challenges previous assumptions about star survival near ...

Stunning new photographs by a team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images give us an unprecedented picture of ...

New images show a galaxy forming that is similar to what our Milky Way’s mass might have been at the same stage of ...

Two Stars May Be Orbiting Each Other Near a Supermassive Black Hole in Our Milky Way Galaxy NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because ...