Firefly Sparkle is still in the process of assembling and has a mass equivalent to about 10 million solar masses.

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

For the first time, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has detected and "weighed" a galaxy that not only existed ...

A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing—not even light—can escape from it. At the center of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted "Firefly Sparkle," a tiny, young galaxy from just 600 million years after the ...

Why is your discovery of the Firefly Sparkle galaxy important? Telescopes like JWST are essentially time machines. Since ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Firefly Sparkle is only 6,500 light-years away from its first companion, and its second companion is separated by 42,000 ...

The Sombrero galaxy looks entirely different in a new image by the James Webb Space Telescope. Instead of a Mexican hat, it ...

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