James Webb Space Telescope witnesses Firefly Sparkle galaxy 'being assembled brick by brick' (image, video)

Split image showing many bright points on the left, stars and galaxies, with a white box around a faint object, enlarged on the right as a blurry stream of lights circled in a white dotted line.

A relic galaxy has been uncovered from the early universe, revealing new clues about what our own galaxy, the Milky Way, may have looked like billions of years ago.