New Postage Stamps on our new refocus on space (little graphic-heavy)

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The Post Office Is Getting Spacey With The New 2016 Stamps And We Love It

With 'Star Trek' and Pluto stamps, its time to start mailing things again



Pluto is going postal.

The U.S. Postal Service unveiled some of the new stamps we'll see in 2016, and several came from outer space. Or rather, the images that appear on them did.

One series includes the planets of the solar system, shown in a variety of different wavelength spectrums (above). Notably absent from that collection is Pluto, everyone's favorite dwarf planet. But that's ok--Pluto is getting the star treatment with its own stamp as well as one for New Horizons, the spacecraft that visited the icy dwarf planet in July.



A moon stamp is another beautiful addition to the collection:



And, oh yeah, and did we mention these gorgeous new Star Trek stamps commemorating the show's 50th anniversary? Yeah, we thought you might like those.

More: http://www.popsci.com/post-office-is-getting-spacey-with-new-2016-stamps-and-we-love-it

[hunter]

1. Looks like I'll be buying some stamps!

Possibly enough Star Trek Forever stamps that they'll be sitting in my mailing drawer forever.

[clarice]

2. EXCELLENT....about time. nt

[dembotoz]

3. the moon ones are round? how really cool is that

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4. I guess I didn't really notice that

Figured they were round images in a rectangle or square, like most stamps. Round stamps would be very cool.