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.
Kartheik Iyer Found a Milky Way-Like Galaxy, and Nicknamed It the Firefly Sparkle
Why is your discovery of the Firefly Sparkle galaxy important? Telescopes like JWST are essentially time machines. Since light from distant galaxies travels for a long time before it reaches our telescope,
Meet Firefly Sparkle, Webb telescope's galaxy find similar to Milky Way
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 has in common with our home Milky Way galaxy.
Firefly Sparkle: Webb telescope 'weighs' a galaxy for the first time
Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, this galaxy existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang and gleams with 10 distinct star clusters.
Firefly Sparkle: Newly discovered galaxy mirrors Milky Way's early days
For the first time, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has detected and "weighed" a galaxy that not only existed about 600 million years after the Big Bang, but also has a mass that is similar to what our Milky Way galaxy's mass might have been at the same stage of development.
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Firefly Sparkle is still in the process of assembling and has a mass equivalent to about 10 million solar masses.
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This galaxy, which is stretched and magnified, glitters with 10 distinct star clusters that formed at different times.
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The Firefly Sparkle galaxy is so named because it resembles a "sparkle" or swarm of lightning bugs on a warm summer night.
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New image shows galaxy forming that is similar in mass to young Milky Way
New images show a galaxy forming that is similar to what our Milky Way’s mass might have been at the same stage of development. Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy ...