Simon travels through Patagonia at the foot of the South American continent, a beautiful and rugged land of mountains, ice and endless wild grasslands, His journey takes him up to the huge South Patagonian ice field, through the foothills of the Andes towards the great Grey Glacier of eastern Chile. In Taibo and Jauny, Simon encounters two gauchos, the cowboys of South America, who live isolated lives in the mountains, tending their livestock and braving the storms in a simple hut for months on end.

The James Webb Space Telescope will be the space observatory of the next decade when it launches. In addition to investigating the wealth of planets outside of our solar system, the observatory will peer back to some of the earliest galaxies that formed after the Big Bang - and the very structure of the universe.