Announced October 23, 2023:
This remarkable image from the James Webb Space Telescope is a digitally colored depiction of the invisible bands of mid-infrared light emitted by the Cosmic Cliffs of the Carina Nebula. Red and yellow flares scattered throughout the cliffs show developing and newly born stars. The orange-and-brown clouds in the lower third of the image are swirls of dust and gas. Additional stars, in our Milky Way and in distant galaxies, appear in the blue and black regions above and beyond the nebula. Greg Breeding, an art director for USPS, designed the Stamp using an image provided by NASA, the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency and the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Further information will be posted below the line, with the newest information at the top.
Updated March 2nd:
The Scott catalogue number for this issue is 5828.
Updated January 11th:
Here are the first-day postmarks for this issue:
The Digital Color Postmark measures 2.88″ x 1.47″
