NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to see far into the past of our expanding universe, and recently spotted galaxies similar to our own Milky Way. The light from these galaxies is from a time when the universe was much younger and it has taken between 8 and 11 billion years to reach us. Each of the Milky Way-like galaxies has stellar bars or elongated lines of stars stretching from the centers of the galaxies into their outer disks. According to researchers at UT Austin, this is the first time stellar bars have been seen in young galaxies, and it may reveal how enough material made it into galaxies to create stars in their centers.