It's the first time that scientists have witnessed clumps of stars assembling to form a galaxy like our own Milky Way and holds clues as to how the Universe was formed. Scientists have named the distant galaxy Firefly Sparkle, because it also looks like a swarm of multi-coloured fireflies.

For the first time, scientists using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered and measured the mass of a galaxy that existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang. Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle galaxy,

A galaxy lurking in the far reaches of the Universe, a mere 600 million years after the Big Bang, is giving us our best glimpse yet at what our own infant Milky Way might have looked like. Bursting with star formation,

In an extraordinary breakthrough, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a galaxy gleaming with the birth of stars, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the early stages of galaxy formation.