Good news for astronomy enthusiasts and stamp collectors: The James Webb Telescope will be featured on a new stamp starting in September. Details . You can also check out some of the telescope's images in our photo gallery .
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will be featured on a new stamp after providing images of parts of the universe never witnessed by humanity before.
The stamp will be first issued on September 8. Preorders of the stamp will be available August 8. The stamp can be purchased in panes of 20 and used for 1-ounce first-class mail. “The image on the stamp is an artist’s digitally created depiction of the telescope against a dazzling starscape,” the US Postal Service said. “The selvage image of a star and distant space was taken by the telescope early in its mission, brilliantly confirming the perfect alignment of the telescope’s 18 mirror segments.”
The telescope has allowed scientists to examine galaxies up to 13.1 billion light-years away. The telescope's spectrograph permits NASA to explore galaxies’ chemical composition.NASA released the first set of images from the telescope on July 12.
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