Firefly

An image acquired by the James Webb Space Telescope, using the NIRCam instrument, shows a newly identified galaxy, the Firefly Sparkle, that is in the process of assembling and forming stars, and existed about 600 million years after the Big Bang, along with two neighboring galaxies. Overlayer added by source. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI/Chris Willott (NRC-Canada), Lamiya Mowla (Wellesley College), Kartheik Iyer (Columbia)/Handout via REUTERS
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Firefly Sparkle galaxy offers a taste of the infant Milky Way

Researchers said the galaxy, still in the process of assembling, dates to when the universe was roughly 5% of its current age, about 600 million years after the Big Bang event that initiated the...