December 12, 2024 5:01 PM
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 discovery that is giving astronomers a peek at what our Milky Way may have looked like in its infancy. Researchers said the galaxy, still in the process of assembling, dates to when the universe was roughly 5% of its current age, about 600 million years after the Big Bang event that initiated the cosmos. It ...