(ORDO NEWS) — The James Webb Telescope (JWST) has found a galaxy called the Sparkler Galaxy, which astronomers believe is a young copy of our Milky Way galaxy.
New information helped to understand what our galaxy was like in the distant past.
The Sparkler Galaxy is located nine billion light-years from Earth, meaning that astronomers see it as it was about four billion years after the Big Bang.
The researchers were able to view it using the gravitational lensing technique and learned that the Bengal Fire has only 3% of the mass of the Milky Way and only 24 globular clusters.
But this small galaxy is growing, actively devouring neighboring satellite galaxies and globular clusters.
Most likely, over time, it will grow to the mass of the Milky Way, which is 1.5 trillion solar masses. There are about 200 globular clusters of stars in our galaxy.
Astronomers will continue to study the globular clusters of the Sparkler Galaxy to learn more about their formation and evolution of galaxies.
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