Postal Service Releases New Epic Solar Forever Stamps
These stamps are so cool! The U.S. Postal Service issued the Sun Science stamps today (6/18) and they are now for sale at Post Offices nationwide.
The Postal Service highlights stunning images of the sun that celebrate the science behind the ongoing exploration of our nearest star. They are absolutely breathtaking and printed with a foil treatment that adds a glimmer to the stamps. The images on these stamps are unique because they come from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. This was a spacecraft launched in February 2010 to keep a constant watch on the sun from geosynchronous orbit above Earth.
The striking colors in these images do not represent the actual colors of the sun as perceived by human eyesight. Instead, each image is colorized by NASA according to different wavelengths that reveal or highlight specific features of the sun’s activity.
“We hope these amazing stamps will help generate the same sense of wonder and curiosity about our star that inspired our ancestors and the scientists at NASA to want to better understand the sun, space, and the myriad of possibilities that exist in our solar system, in our universe and beyond,” said Thomas J. Marshall, the Postal Service’s general counsel, and executive vice president, and the stamp ceremony’s dedicating official. The Sun Science stamps are being issued as a Forever stamp in panes of 20. These Forever stamps will always be equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1–ounce price.
Postal Service Makes the Sun Shine Bright With Forever Stamps
