Kartheik Iyer, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, was the co-author on the paper on Firefly Sparkle. It ...

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

We know that interstellar objects occasionally visit our solar system. So far, we have only discovered two interstellar ...

"Our reconstruction shows that clumps of actively forming stars are surrounded by diffuse light from other unresolved stars," ...

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

A long-standing mystery about a strange cluster of stars in our galaxy may have finally been solved by scientists. The stars ...

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

The Firefly Sparkle galaxy is so named because it resembles a "sparkle" or swarm of lightning bugs on a warm summer night.

NASA's Webb Telescope 'weighs' galaxy Firefly Sparkle, revealing its mass and star formation processes 600 million years ...

Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and ‘weighed’ a galaxy that existed about 600 million years after the big bang ...

Intriguingly, this mass is consistent with simulations of Milky Way analogues at this early time, hinting that the Firefly Sparkle might have grown into a galaxy similar to our own. The authors ...