18 hexagonals segments of beryllium coated with gold
aligned together compound the large mirror
gold like an immense honeycomb
with slightly more than 25 square meters
of James Webb telescope
shadowed by a shield in the shape of a sail
orbiting the sun at 1.5 million km from Earth
at the second Lagrange point, maybe forever in line with our planet,
with which scientists hope to investigate the deep Universe
in search of the legend of its beginning
just to discover into the depths a deeper dive.
Original poem: 'James Webb', by crroma
In: crroma, 2023