NASA Telescope Finds Mirror Image Of Milky Way 9 Billion Light Years Away
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The findings have been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
In the universe, every star is a hope for a new life and shelter. Now, James Webb Space Telescope has found a galaxy just like the Milky Way, it is located 9 billion light years away from Earth.
Named 'Sparker', the galaxy is located in the southern constellation Volens. The galaxy was named Sparkler because it is surrounded by around two dozen shining globular clusters orbiting around it. Each of these clusters could contain around a million stars. Our galaxy currently hosts around 200 globular clusters of its own, reported Space.com.
The James Webb telescope view shows Sparkler as it looked when the Universe was only four billion years old or about a third of the Universe's present age. According to the Science Alert report, if the newly discovered galaxy grows at the same rate that it should grow the same way the Milky Way did in about 9 billion years.
The investigation of this galaxy will provide astronomers with a unique insight into how the Milky way has evolved.
