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Why is an electron microscope more detailed than than a (light) microscope?

When I see images from electron microscopes it seems we are able to look at smaller objects than light microscopes. Why?
gpt
To put it simply the wavelength of a light photon is much, much bigger than the wavelength of an electron, the smaller wavelength of electrons allows for more EM waves to hit an area increasing the resolution, think about it like trying to fit basketballs in a room vs ping pong balls, if the balls were coloured you could create a much clearer image with the ping pong balls than basketballs, in this case light wavelength are the basketballs and electrons the ping pong balls.
 
Edit: Photons have 'bigger' wavelength, not 'lower'