The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth. Our solar system takes about 240 million years to orbit the Milky Way just once ...

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope ... This lightweight galaxy, brimming with sparkling star clusters, offers a glimpse into the Milky Way's infancy.

Stunning new photographs taken by Wellesley College astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have unveiled a newly ...

NASA Webb unveils Firefly Sparkle galaxy, 600M years post-Big Bang. Firefly Sparkle mirrors Milky Way's early development. Rare gravitational lensing aids in high-resolution discovery.

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 ...

For the first time, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy that not only existed around 600 million years after the big bang, but is also similar to what our Milky Way ...

Astronomers uncover a young galaxy similar to the Milky Way, shedding light on its early formation just 600 million years ...

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