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Seeing a Mirror Image of the Milky Way From Billions of Years Ago


Ever wonder what our Milky Way Galaxy looked like in its early history? Astronomers using the Webb Telescope (JWST) found another galaxy that's almost a mirror image of our galaxy as an infant. It's nicknamed "The Sparkler".

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