The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ...

Item 1 of 2 An image acquired by the James Webb Space Telescope, using the NIRCam instrument, shows a newly identified galaxy, the Firefly Sparkle, that is in the process of assembling and forming ...

Firefly Sparkle,” a galaxy that existed about 600 million years after the big bang, has been imaged by the James Webb Space ...

Newly discovered galaxy Firefly Sparkle looks a lot like Milky Way. See incredible photos. Seth Jacobson, USA TODAY NETWORK - New England. Sat, December 14, 2024 at 10:11 AM UTC.

"By examining these photos of the Firefly Sparkle, we can better understand how our own Milky Way took shape." Glimpses of a young galaxy forming in a way so similar to our own are unparalleled ...

The Firefly Sparkle galaxy fits that bill, corresponding to a time just 600 million years after the Big Bang. Roberto Abraham, who leads the Dunlap Institute, ...

“A group of fireflies – which is what this galaxy looks like – is called a sparkle,” Prof Mowla said. Firefly Sparkle is located about 6,500 light years from Firefly-Best Friend and about ...

A Wellesley College-led team of astronomers have discovered a new galaxy that is forming.. And it looks a lot like our galaxy, the Milky Way. "The extraordinary images—taken with NASA’s James ...

The galaxy is estimated to have formed 100-400 million years before its evolutionary stage that was observed by Webb, ... Firefly Sparkle galaxy offers a taste of the infant Milky Way.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because its gleaming star clusters resemble the bioluminescent bugs - in a ...