Zoom into Dwarf Galaxy WLM 🔍

This video zooms into a portion of the dwarf galaxy Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte (WLM) captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera. The final image shown demonstrates Webb’s remarkable ability to resolve faint stars outside the Milky Way.

This observation was taken as part of Webb’s Early Release Science (ERS) program 1334, focused on resolved stellar populations. The dwarf galaxy WLM was selected for this program as its gas is similar to that which made up galaxies in the early Universe and it is relatively nearby, meaning that Webb can differentiate between its individual stars. The gas in WLM is fairly unriched, chemically speaking, meaning that it is poor in elements heavier than hydrogen and helium. Learn more about Webb’s research of the dwarf galaxy WLM here.

The galaxy lies roughly 3 million light-years away.

📹 NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and K. McQuinn (Rutgers University), A. Pagan (STScI).
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[Life_]

I love our universe! I am grateful to be alive and experiencing everything ESA shares❤

[Colbyatops]

Mind staggering, fathoming this reality of distant worlds we cannot reach or talk to. Thank you for the amazing window you open to our eyes. When I feel the weight of the world, I try and recall this perspective of our size and place in the oceanic universe, and the weight begins to lift

[TravisLee]

Thank you ESA and have a happy holiday!

[jacquespitts]

There’s no way we are alone. Imagine the different life forms there could truly be.

[michaelpizzuto]

This is where we come from !!! The stars

[diadiavidanarocafabianojun]

É impossível estarmos sozinhos em um universo tão gigante, que vai além da nossa compreensão. 😵‍💫😵‍💫

[condorboss]

Interesting to see at least a dozen more distant grand spiral galaxies lurking in the background.

[jamesbrescia]

Every time I look at these it's so amazing how big it is and spectacular there's literally infinite amount of suns planets more and more grows every second

[HowardMcQuoid]

Many years ago in the 1980s, I had the pleasure to work on some components manufactured for Ariane in Ireland and still following esa to this day. ✨️

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Thanks for sharing!

It's beautiful and a little scary to see that there is no end.

[epatatuah]

Fascinating! I hope we will eventually find something there, in our lifetime

[litbmeinnick]

Behind this galaxy, there are approximately on average 5 thousand others in the observable universe, if I'm not mistaken.

[caroldelosangeles]

Hubble telescope still? Thats amazing imanes and i wish more tecnology Applied into new lens or getting better and better with the Telescopes that We have!thanks a lot for this beauty ❤️🤩

[honodle]

To look at the is to realize our place in it isn't inevitable.

[anjachan]

amazing that you kind find something there ... wow

[jamesbrescia]

Imagine around another 100 years people will have personal space ships and living on other planets dam wish i could get see it good luck future generations you will need it space is very hard and deadly

[odjiramirez]

L'infiniment grand et l'infiniment petit se ressemble drôlement mais vraiment. C'est une seule et même structure en fin de compte 🕵. Pareil au même que le nano cosme ou le bio cosme, tout ça grâce à la négentropie, merci la vie.

[joaobarbosadelimafilho]

Isso é muito fascinante... Só Deus é capaz de fazer uma coisa dessa um aglomerado de galáxias 😢👏👏

[Prospero]

The theme music for this video when left on continuously makes me so 😴 sleepy.

[WonneKroesPiano]

Also: redshifted galaxies at top left?