For the first time, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has detected and "weighed" a galaxy that not only existed ...
Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, this galaxy existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang and gleams with 10 distinct star ...
But it soon became obvious that they were associated because the Sparkler Galaxy itself is projected three times in the SMACS 0723 image. That's just how gravitational lenses work sometimes ...
A galaxy lurking in the far reaches of the Universe, a mere 600 million years after the Big Bang, is giving us our best ...
What was the Milky Way like billions of years ago? One way we can find out is by looking at the most distant galaxies in the ...
But the galaxy is full of 2,000 globular clusters, or groups of hundreds of thousands of old stars gravitationally held together, providing the perfect place for astronomers to conduct comparison ...