The range of U.S. stamps featuring images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will expand again in 2025.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) revealed on Monday (December 16) that its upcoming Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express Flat Rate Stamps Two deep sky vistas captured by the Webb Observatory will be displayed. The stamp is expected to be released on January 21 and will be the second set of stamps used Jen West Photos After the pair was released this year.
“The United States Postal Service has released an ultra-high-definition image of a spiral galaxy 32 million light-years from Earth, celebrating the continued exploration of deep space… [and] Star cluster about 1,000 light-years from Earth,” Postal Service announced on its website on Monday. “this [images were] Captured by NASA James Webb Space Telescope”.
Both stamps feature images taken in 2023, the first year and a year and a half after the Webb telescope, the world’s most powerful telescope, was deployed 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth at the gravitational stable point with the Sun (Lagrangian point 2 or L2).
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2025 Priority Mail Stamp Highlights Spiral Galaxy NGC 628in vivid orange and red hues, represents gas and dust revealed in near- and mid-infrared light. The image was first released to the public on January 29, 2024, as part of the PHANGS (Physics of Nearby Galaxies at High Angular Resolution) program, which includes observations from a number of space-based and ground-based telescopes. galaxy.
“This image…helps researchers update their models of star formation and gives them a better understanding of how stars originate our universe,” reads a description from the U.S. Postal Service.
Cluster IC 348 is the subject of the 2025 Priority Mail Express stamps. The slender purple curtain filling the image is interstellar material that reflects light from the cluster’s stars, hence its name as a “reflection nebula.”
“Hidden in the dust clouds floating in the sky brown dwarf — Object too small to be a star but larger than most planets. Studying these brown dwarfs will help scientists explore how the star formation process occurs at very small masses,” the USPS announcement reads.
Both stamps were designed by U.S. Postal Service Art Director Greg Breeding. Webb image courtesy of NASA European Space Agency The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency are partners in operating the telescope, including Janice Lee of the Space Telescope Science Institute, Thomas Williams of the University of Oxford and the NGC 628 PHANGS team, and Kevin Luhman of Penn State University and de Oliveira of Catarina Alves ESA, responsible for IC 348.
The design and theme of the stamps are still subject to change, pending review by the Postal Regulatory Commission. If approved, the Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express stamps will be released during a first-day ceremony in Big Sky, Montana.
Details regarding first day release picture cancellation and imprint are still to be announced. These stamp designs were announced in the second set of stamp themes to be released in 2025, with additional themes to be announced in the coming weeks and months. So far, the Webb stamp is the only space-themed stamp planned for release next year.
this Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express in 2024 Stamp Features Weber’s version of the “Pillars of Creation” One of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic images, and one of Webb’s first targets, is the “cosmic cliff.” They are still available from USPS, but due to temporary price changes, postage will be added when used for Priority Mail or Priority Mail Express shipments.
The James Webb Space Telescope is also a subject 2022 USPS permanent denomination stamps It shows an artist’s rendering of what the observatory would look like once it becomes operational in deep space. It is also still available for sale through the postal service.
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