2022 USPS James Webb Space Telescope Forever Stamps - Booklet of 20 Postage Stamps

With this stamp the US Postal Service celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope the largest and most sensitive telescope ever deployed in space capable of peering directly into the early cosmos and to the limits of the known universe launch on December 25th 2021, Webb right now orbits the sun about a million miles away from the Earth. 

The image on the stamp is an artist’s digitally created depiction of the telescope against a dazzling starscape. Webb’s 18 gold-coated mirror segments-hexagons that combine to form is a 21-ft wide primary mirror can pick up faint heat waves representing the universe first accessible starlight from billions of light years away. The secondary mirror supported by three struts, is opposite the primary mirror below our red solar Shields computers control machinery and the solar array that provides power the Salvage image of a star and distance space was taken by web early in its mission brilliantly confirming the perfect alignment of the telescopes 18 mirror segments.

Webb will provide views of the universe in its infancy, including galaxies during their formation the telescope May identify planets with conditions adventurous for supporting life as we know It.

Webb represents multinational corporation of NASA,  the European Space /agency and the Canadian space agency over the development was led and managed by NASA.

Art director Derry Noyes was the designer for the stamp project using existing art by James Vaughan and the image provided by NASA/STScl.  The James Webb Space Telescope stamp is being issued as a forever stamp in panes of 20.  This forever stamp is always equal in value to the current first-class mail one-ounce price.

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