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 ...

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 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.

Cocooned in a diffuse arc, and resembling fireflies "dancing" on a summer night, the newly discovered galaxy -- which the Wellesley team have dubbed the "Firefly Sparkle" -- was taking shape ...

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 ...

Extensive observations by NASA's New Horizons mission have resulted in the first-ever map of the galaxy in an ultraviolet wavelength. A new study from the NASA New Horizons mission team at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The team of astronomers at Wellesley College have named the new galaxy, "Firefly Sparkle." "These remarkable images give us an unprecedented picture of what our own galaxy might have looked like ...