The United States' mail system is about to get a new telescope after it was successfully deployed into a stable orbit between Earth and the sun.
The USPS will be issuing a postage stamp in honor of the new observatory later this year.
The USPS release read that the James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most complex telescope ever deployed in space, capable of peering directly into the early cosmos and studying every phase of Cosmic history.
The James Webb Space Telescope is named after the Apollo-era NASA administrator who championed space science. It is intended to be the successor to the Hubble and Spitzer telescopes.
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The new stamps will depict the fully deployed observatory with its hexagonal golden mirrors and tennis-court-size sun shield, set against a field of stars. Derry Noyes used an existing piece of art to design the USPS's new commemoration.
The giant mirror of the telescope was one of the things that I tried to portray from the beginning. It looks into a whole new world.
The February 2016 cover of Science magazine was created by Vaughan. This is the first time that his art has appeared on a stamp.
He said that he was happy that they chose something that was pretty, colorful and attractive. I am happy.
The sheets of 20 stamps will have a selvage photograph of a bright star taken by the James Webb Space Telescope early in its mission to confirm that its 18 mirror segments were precisely aligned.
Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for science, said that the team set out to build the most powerful telescope that anyone has ever put in space and came up with an audacious optical design to meet demanding science goals.
Since then, the telescope has been proven to be capable of capturing crisp, well-focused images using each of its four science instruments. Scientific observations are expected to start this summer.
NASA posted to its social media channels on Tuesday that it was yours. We plan to issue pictures of the universe. Stay aware of all the special deliveries.
The release date and first-day-of-issue location are to be announced later.
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