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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Astronomers have discovered a first: a binary star system in the vicinity of Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is associated with wanton destruction, but a recent discovery throws that assumption into question. A team of ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Stunning new photographs by a Wellesley College-led team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks ...

Don Pettit packed a home-made tracker to space, allowing him to bless our timelines with long-exposure images.