This summer, the children of franceinfo junior play explorers conquering space and distant stars. We talk about it with the astrophysicist Olivier Berné.
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Tuesday July 12, franceinfo junior is interested in the James Webb telescope, the largest ever launched into space. The first images have just been revealed. French researchers will be among the first to be able to study these images. To talk about it in franceinfo junior: Olivier Berné, astrophysicist at the CNRS and at the helm of one of these observation programs which studies the Orion nebula.
Sabah and Joheina ask him their questions. Children especially want to know what is the point of sending such a telescope into space. The opportunity for the guest to explain what this particular telescope will be able to observe, from nebulae to galaxies and their billions of stars. They will be able “tell us what the universe was like billions of years ago.” Scientists also hope to see the first lights of the Universe and “understand how the first stars of our universe were born”. “What’s the point of studying distant stars”, asks Joheina precisely. The girls also wonder how this telescope located in space works.
On this page, re-listen in full to this broadcast on the James Webb Space Telescope.