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There is so much going on inside this seemingly tiny galaxy, it appears like a swarm of lightning bugs on a warm summer night, this galaxy is gleaming with star clusters.

This is the very first time NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and examined a galaxy that existed around 600 million years after the big bang, that carries many resemblances to our own Milky Way at a similar stage of its own development.

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