"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on the shoulders of a number of people," said Jeff Rich, an astronomer at ...

The Milky Way galaxy as seen from Earth. Image source: Yin/Adobe It’s a surprising discovery, the researchers say, because we previously believed that the halos of galaxies like the Milky Way ...

These “seeds” or stars were not full-fledged galaxies themselves, but instead the seeds that would later clump together to form our Milky Way galaxy, which would then grow as galaxies merged ...

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 ...