Scicast

James Webb (SciCast #530) (2023x13)

Air date: Mar 10, 2023

If on the shoulders of giants we can see further, imagine 1.5 million kilometers from the ground and with a mirror 6.5 m in diameter collecting light. After decades of development, $10 billion invested, and many delays, the James Webb Space Telescope has finally gone into space. But what's so special about him? Why send such an expensive object so far away? What have we learned from him so far? That's what we're going to explore in this episode.