Three videos ahead of the James Webb Space Telescope launch

Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez
Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez
Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez - When it rockets into space on or about Dec. 24, the ultra-high-tech observatory will carry two instruments designed at UdeM. Our experts explain how it'll all work, in a series of online videos. The James Webb Space Telescope - the world's most sophisticated astronomical observatory - is slated to launch Dec. 24, and when it rockets into space it will be include two instruments designed by researchers at Université de Montreal's Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx). Now you can watch our experts explain how it'll all work. The astrophysicists feature in three online videos - two for adults, the other for children - that we've prepared to help people better understand the mission's scientific importance and UdeM's contribution to it.
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