A Gleaming Series of USPS Stamps Features a Decade of the Sun’s Phenomena

NASA and the USPS have teamed up to release a glimmering series of stamps that celebrates some of the sun’s most alluring phenomena. Printed with a foil treatment, the ten designs are derived from a decade’s worth of images captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, which launched in February of 2010 as a way to monitor the star’s activity in a geosynchronous orbit above Earth. NASA colorized the phenomena, which are otherwise imperceptible to the human eye, for the collection to create saturated, colorful renditions that accentuate the unique qualities of coronal holes, solar flares, and plasma blasts.

Watch the video below to dive into the colorizing process and read more about the science behind each stamp on NASA’s site. Sheets of 20 are available from USPS.

 

A Gleaming Series of USPS Stamps Features a Decade of the Sun’s Phenomena

A Gleaming Series of USPS Stamps Features a Decade of the Sun’s Phenomena

A Gleaming Series of USPS Stamps Features a Decade of the Sun’s Phenomena

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