And it looks a lot like our galaxy, the Milky Way. "The extraordinary images—taken with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—show a galaxy that glitters with 10 distinct star clusters that ...

This discovery is particularly significant as the galaxy's mass closely resembles what the Milky Way's mass might have been during the same stage of its formation. This galaxy, which is named the ...

Listen to Story Firefly Sparkle's mass aligns with expectations for a precursor to our own galaxy It is 10,000 times less massive than the current Milky Way. The name "Firefly Sparkle" was inspired by ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted a distant galaxy which gives a peek at what the Milky Way might have looked like in its infancy. The galaxy, named Firefly Sparkle due to its ...

NASA Webb unveils Firefly Sparkle galaxy, 600M years post-Big Bang. Firefly Sparkle mirrors Milky Way's early development. Rare gravitational lensing aids in high-resolution discovery.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a groundbreaking discovery, identifying a galaxy that existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang. This finding provides a rare opportunity to ...

The galaxy is estimated to have formed 100 million to 400 million years before its evolutionary stage that was observed by Webb, the most capable space telescope ever deployed. “The Milky Way ...

Dec. 11, 2024 — 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 ...

Firefly Sparkle is a lightweight among the universe's galaxy contenders seen by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, but the discovery is no less important than more massive galaxies because of what it ...

Using Webb’s images and data, the researchers determined that the Firefly Sparkle had the same mass as our Milky Way galaxy would have if it had been weighed while in formation. The research ...