The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.
For decades, scientists have disagreed about a fundamental question: how quickly is the Universe ... galaxies to include in their analyses. But there is hope that more JWST observations, or ...
The James Webb space telescope had several stunning findings this year that changed how we understand the universe.
Researchers said the galaxy, still in the process of assembling, dates to when the universe was roughly 5 ... Its star clusters display slightly different colors, indicating they did not all ...
Galaxies in the present-day universe fall into two broad categories ... technique for analysing ALMA observations. Alma data are different than the images we are used to see from optical telescopes.
The image shows ten balls of stars of different colours ... Way and holds clues as to how the Universe was formed. Scientists have named the distant galaxy Firefly Sparkle, because it also ...
and NGC 4496B (lower galaxy). They are in the same line of sight from Earth but located at quite different distances, and ...
So, each second, every megaparsec of the Universe expands by a ... using three different measurements to determine distances to galaxies known to be hosts to supernovae. "Cross-checking Hubble ...
"Each clump of stars is undergoing a different phase of formation or evolution." — Ancient cosmic collisions may have birthed the universe's most monstrous galaxies The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy ...
The stars themselves were different, too ... black holes and early galaxies is stretched by the expansion of the universe, a phenomenon known as cosmic redshift. Observing this cosmically ...
"The discrepancy between the observed expansion rate of the universe and the predictions ... They used three different methods to measure distances to galaxies that hosted supernovae, focusing ...