Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

The Milky Way is our galactic home, but just how big is it?  Dive into this fascinating exploration of the galaxy's size, scale, and structure. Get ready for an astronomical perspective on our place ...

But around the cosmic time that we are seeing the Firefly Sparkle, Milky Way-like galaxy progenitors were about 10,000 times less massive than today’s Milky Way. Hopefully with the collaboration ...

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

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 ...

On New Year’s Day, 1925 attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are ...

It has a mass equal to about 10 million stars the size of our sun ... with what we'd expect for a Milky Way ancestor at that early time. At this stage, the galaxy was about 10,000 times less ...

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

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.

It’s beautiful but also a reminder of the ultimate fate that awaits our own Milky Way galaxy. The image was captured using the NOIRLabs’ International Gemini Observatory. NOIRLabs says that ...

Glimpses of a young galaxy forming in a way so similar to our own are unparalleled, Mowla says. The JWST images show a Milky Way-like galaxy in the early stages of its assembly in a universe that ...