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Competition

Poems about the James Webb Space Telescope

13 August 2022

9:00 AM

13 August 2022

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3261, you were invited to submit a poem about the James Webb Space Telescope.

The first dazzling images captured by its infrared eyes were a welcome antidote to our terrestrial woes. They brought to mind the moment in the film Contactwhen Jodie Foster’s character comes face to face with a celestial object for the first time and says: ‘They should have sent a poet.’

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