Firefly Sparkle Galaxy Offers a Taste of Infant Milky Way

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.
Newly discovered galaxy Firefly Sparkle looks a lot like Milky Way. See incredible photos
Kartheik Iyer, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, was the co-author on the paper on Firefly Sparkle. It was discovered through an image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
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