The brand new Snapchat space series has just been launched by Futura: Swipe Into Space! On the program, answers to the many questions we ask ourselves about the cosmos. For this fifth episode, discover how the James-Webb telescope is truly revolutionary!
Notice to lovers of SnapchatFutura is launching a brand new children’s series on space and the sciences of the Universe: Swipe Into Space. Through dynamic episodes of approximately three minutes, sprinkled with grandiose illustrations and face-to-face sequences, you will discover many mysteries of the cosmosof the edge of the universe to the formation of our planet.
Each week, Thibaut at Futura will answer one of the many questions we might ask. VSow was formed the Moon ? What is the Starshipthis rocket new generation that promises to send men to Mars? How does a spacewalk take place? What fate awaits our Universe? What if we could travel to the speed of light ?
In this fifth episode: the James-Webb space telescope
It hasn’t stopped being talked about since its launch in December 2021: the James Webb Space Telescope is about to revolutionize the world of astronomy. And he demonstrated it very recently, when his very first images were unveiled, with in particular theDeepest Infrared Image of the Universe Ever Taken ! The galaxy cluster Smacs 0723, located in the foreground, acts as a gravitational lens and reveals many stars located behind him. On the other images revealed, the various astronomical objects are adorned with colors and full of details invisible until today. Compared to Hubble of which he is said to be the successor, the difference is striking. And before him, other telescopes preceded.
The history of sky observation goes back a long way. Several centuries ago, the astronomers were already trying to unlock the secrets of heaven nocturnal, with that said much smaller diameters than current astronomical instruments. And James-Webb may well solve some of them, because no telescope had ever reached its observation capacity. With his 18 mirrors hexagonal and many state-of-the-art instruments on board, including theMiri instrument designed by theESA, it promises new results on one of the big questions we ask ourselves: are we alone in the Universe? To find out more about the giant of telescopes, you will have to go to Swipe Into Space !
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