The James Webb Space Telescope is nearing its destination 1 million miles away from earth. In the run-up to it’s first images of what the universe was like as far back as 50 million years after the start of time, Aidan interviews optics engineer Louis Martin, an expert in telescope instrumentation.

This episode, Louis explains why the Webb is so important to our understanding of how the universe and everything within it forms, and how it will be able to detect water and life on distant planets. The only question is whether the life is there or not.

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