A new version of the satellite will soon fly around Earth as the James Webb Space Telescope settles into a solar orbit.
A new stamp featuring the most powerful space telescope ever built will be issued by the United States Postal Service later this year, giving space fans something new to add to their collection, and letter writers something to stick on their envelopes.
The USPS said in a message that it was celebrating NASA's remarkable James Webb Space Telescope, 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 postal service said the image on the stamp is an artist's digitally created depiction of the telescope against a dazzling starscape, and that the image of a star that will feature at the top of a sheet of the stamps.
Derry Noyes, art director at the USPS, designed the new stamp using existing art created by James Vaughan and an image provided by NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute.
NASA shared news of the stamp's creation in a statement. USPS plans to issue stamps from NASA. We plan to issue pictures of the universe. Stay aware of all the special deliveries.
Signed, sealed, delivered, we're yours. @USPS plans to issue @NASAWebb stamps later this year. (And we plan to issue @NASAWebb pictures of the cosmos.) Stay tuned for all the special deliveries. pic.twitter.com/kKXjhQn1Em
— NASA (@NASA) May 3, 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope will be in space for at least 10 years. The $10 billion project is a joint effort by NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency.
In order to learn more about the origins of the universe, the telescope will look for distant planets that may support life.
The work of the Hubble Space Telescope will complement the activities of the Webb Space Telescope.
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