Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte

dwarf irregular galaxy · on the edge of the Local Group

3.2 million light-years from Earth

A lonely galaxy at the edge of the Local Group that seems never to have met another galaxy. Max Wolf found it in 1909, and in 2022 the James Webb Space Telescope photographed its stars to read its history.

• 3.2 million light-years · at the Local Group's edge
• the Webb telescope photographed its stars in 2022

kind

galaxy

size

13,300 light-years across