Mowla, who spotted the galaxy in Webb’s image, was drawn to its gleaming star clusters, because objects that sparkle typically indicate they are extremely clumpy and complicated. Since the galaxy looks like a ‘sparkle’ or swarm of fireflies on a warm summer night, they named it the Firefly Sparkle galaxy.

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have reinforced the Hubble tension, a discrepancy between different measurements of the universe's expansion rate. Scientists, using Cepheid variable stars,