Royal Mail Visions of the Universe FDC

Description

Issue Date: 11th Feb

Description:

In the year in which the Royal Astronomical Society is celebrating its 200th anniversary Royal Mail is issuing a set of eight Special Stamps, depicting various astronomical features and phenomena discovered over that time by British astronomers and astrophysicists. Stephen Hawking was awarded the RAS’s prestigious gold medal in 1985 for his  contribution to cosmology and his collaborations on the nature of black holes.

Stamps & Postmarks:

Stamps are as follows:

2^nd Class – Cat’s Eye Nebula

2^nd Class – Enceladus

1^st Class – Pulsar

1^st Class – Black Hole

£1.55 – Jupiter’s aurora

£1.55 – Gravitational Lensing

£1.60 – Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

£1.60 – Cygnus A galaxy

FDI London W1 | Prof. Stephen Hawking | Oxford | Cambridge

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