Glimpses of a young galaxy forming in a way so similar to our own are unparalleled, Mowla says. The JWST images show a Milky Way-like galaxy in the early stages of its assembly in a universe that ...

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 ...

In this one-minute clip posted to X from the International Space Station (ISS) social media account, SpaceX's Crew Dragon ...

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.

More information: Yao-Yuan Mao et al, The SAGA Survey. III. A Census of 101 Satellite Systems around Milky Way–mass Galaxies, The Astrophysical Journal (2024).DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad64c4 Marla ...

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 ...

SAGA has found several hundred of these satellite galaxies orbiting 101 Milky Way-mass galaxies. "The Milky Way has been an incredible physics laboratory, including for the physics of galaxy formation ...

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy that not only existed around 600 million years after the big bang, but is also similar to what our Milky Way ...

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 ...