James Webb Space Telescope Stamps

With this stamp, the U.S. Postal Service celebrates the james Webb Space Telescope (Webb), the largest and most sensitivetelescope ever deploved in space.capable of peering directlv into the earv cosmos and to the imits of the known universe.Launched on December 25, 2021, Webb now orbits the Sun about a million miles away from Earth.

The image on the stamp is an artist's digitally created depiction of the telescope against a dazzling starscape. Webb's 18 goldcoated mirror segments.hexagons that combine to form its 21-foot-wide primary mirror-can pick up faint heat wavesrepresenting the universe's first accessible starlight from bilions of light-years away. The secondary miror, supported by threestruts, is opposite the primary mirror. Below are Webb's solar shield, computers, control machinery, and the solar array thatprovides power.

The selvage image of a star and distant space was taken by Webb early in its mission, brilliantly confirming the perfectalignment of the telescope's 18 mirror segments.

Webb will provide views of the universe in its infancy, including galaxies during their formation. The telescope may identifplanets with conditions advantageous for supporting life as we know it.

Webb represents multinational cooperation of NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency. Overalldevelopment was led and managed by NASA.Art director Derry Noyes was the designer for the stamp project using existing art by James Vaughan and an image providedby NASA/STScl. The James Webb Space Telescope stamp is being issued as a Forever® stamp in panes of 20. This Forevestamp is always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce priceMade in the USA