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

NASA has successfully detected and measured a galaxy that existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang for the first ...

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

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

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

Firefly Sparkle is among the earliest galaxies humans have observed, which formed merely some 600 million years after the Big ...

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.

Why is your discovery of the Firefly Sparkle galaxy important? Telescopes like JWST are essentially time machines. Since ...

Sometimes in astronomy, a simple question has a difficult answer. One such question is this: what is the mass of our galaxy?

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

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