Two images taken with a space telescope James Webbwhich began its scientific activities in the summer of 2022 and is the largest device of its type ever built, this Monday became two stamps of the United States Postal Service (USPS).
Both are priority postage stamps and are spectacular colorful landscape of space.
“NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is a perfect intersection of science, engineering and art, revealing the universe’s greatest mysteries through the beautiful images it captures,” the associate administrator for science missions said in a statement. Nicola Fox.
The first of the stamps, express priority, shows Carina Nebulaabout 7,600 light-years away, which was one of the first images taken by Webb to be published in the summer of 2022.
In the picture, you can see stars which had remained hidden until then, and which were revealed thanks to the telescope’s ability to pick up infrared light, allowing it to see beyond cosmic dust.
On the second stamp he is famous Pillars of Creation, about 6,500 light-years away, where new stars form in dense clouds of gas and dust, a process that takes millennia. This image was released by NASA in October 2022 and, like the nebula, is two of the most iconic images taken by the telescope.
The next image to make it to the stamps is the Carina Nebula
James Webb, which was launched on December 25, 2021, and which had to overcome the line critical stages of its complex deploymentin addition to long fine-tuning, it is not only the largest and most advanced telescope in space, but also ushered in a new era in astronomy.
Located 1.5 million kilometers away, he focuses on his studies primitive universeevolution galaxiesthe life cycle of stars and the existence and composition of other worlds.
Thanks to the cooperation of NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), its development has become a reality.
