US James Webb Space Telescope NDC Sheet 20 Stamps PreOrder ships 15 Sep 2022 MNH

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2022 James Webb Space Telescope NDC/Imperf Mint Sheet of 20 Stamps. Pre-Order. Ships 15 Sep 2022. MNH.
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A single commemorative stamp will celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope. Launched Dec. 25, 2021, the telescope is currently in orbit around the sun, some 1 million miles from Earth. “The image on the stamp is an artist’s digitally created depiction of the telescope against a dazzling starscape,” the Postal Service said.
According to the USPS, the pane selvage will feature a photograph of a star and distant space that the telescope took “early in its mission, brilliantly confirming the perfect alignment of the telescope’s 18 mirror segments.”
Existing art by James Vaughan and a NASA/Space Telescope Science Institute image were used by USPS art director Derry Noyes to design the stamp.