posted 10-23-2023 08:45 PM               

Webb Space Telescope images to feature on US Priority Mail stamps in 2024

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is granting priority status to the work of the James Webb Space Telescope.

As announced on Monday (Oct. 23), the USPS plans to release two 2024 Priority Mail postage stamps, each featuring a cosmic image captured by the observatory.

posted 01-13-2024 03:54 PM               

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Digital color postmarks:

posted 01-22-2024 12:00 AM               

US Priority Mail stamps now feature Webb Space Telescope images

As light reaching the James Webb Space Telescope, it took between 6,500 and 7,600 years for the "Pillars of Creation" and "Cosmic Cliffs" to be received. As the images on two new U.S. Priority and Priority Express-rate postage stamps, they will almost assuredly get your mail to its destination much sooner.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) released both stamps on Monday (Jan. 22). Although their official "first day of issue" city is Greenbelt, Maryland — home to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, which managed the Webb Space Telescope's development — a traditional first of day issue ceremony was not held.