The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

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.

WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Since the galaxy looks like a "sparkle" or swarm of fireflies on a warm summer night, they named it the Firefly Sparkle galaxy. The research team modeled what the galaxy might have looked like if ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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 ...

Firefly Sparkle Galaxy Offers a Taste of the Infant Milky Way By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe ...

which gave the galaxy its whimsical name: the Firefly Sparkle Galaxy. “I didn’t think it would be possible to resolve a galaxy that existed so early in the universe into so many distinct ...

The dazzling appearance has earned this cosmic structure the nickname "Firefly Sparkle Galaxy." Using computer modeling, researchers "weighed" the galaxy, showing that it has a mass similar to ...