The United States Postal Service (USPS) will release a new set of postage stamps featuring images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2025. The stamps, scheduled for release on January 21, will showcase two deep-space vistas.
Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all ages.The universe of United States postage stamps featuring James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST ) imagery is set to expand again in 2025. The new set will feature two deep space vistas captured by the Webb observatory. Scheduled for release on Jan. 21, the stamps will be the second set to use JWST images.
'USPS celebrates the continued exploration of deep space with an extremely high-definition image of a spiral galaxy 32 million light-years from Earth ... a star cluster approximately 1,000 light-years from Earth,' the postal service. The U.S. Postal Service 2025 Priority Mail postage stamp features a Webb Space Telescope image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 628. Both stamps feature images taken in 2023, in the first and year and a half since Webb — the world's most powerful telescope — was deployed 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth. US Postal Service to launch James Webb Space Telescope 'forever' stamp, showing stark shades of orange and red representing the gas and dust revealed in near- and mid-infrared light. The image, which debuted to the public on Jan. 29, 2024, was taken as part of the PHANGS (Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS) program, a project that includes observations from several space- and ground-based telescopes of many is the subject of the 2025 Priority Mail Express stamp. The wispy violet curtains that fill the image are interstellar material reflecting the light from the cluster's stars, hence it being referred to as a'reflection nebula.'— objects too small to be stars but larger than most planets. Studying these brown dwarfs will help scientists explore how star-formation processes operate for very small masses,' read the USPS announcement. Both stamps were designed by Greg Breeding, an art director for the USP
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