Sunday Stamps: Stars, moon, planets

Today's theme of Sunday Stamps is stars or moon or planets.

Coincidentally my mail art colleague Cascadia Artpost sent me a stamp from the USA recently (received yesterday!), including all three items in one.
A stamp, issued in honour of the solar eclips which will be seen on 21st of August, mainly in the USA.

Three in one? Yes: the sun (a star), more or less hidden by our moon (the moon), seen from the earth (a planet).



The technique used for this stamp is - as far as I know - new in its use for stamps.
The mechanism is used for mugs, but now it isn't warm tea or coffee which reveals the image, it is the warmth of our own finger. Fortunately Cascadia added an instruction manual to it, as you see above.

When warmed up, you can see the moon!



See more stamps on stars, moon, planets at and via today's Sunday stamps.

Sunday stamps: Outer space

This Sunday's Sunday Stamps theme is 'Outer space'.

The first stamp which came into my mind is this one, received from Assel from Kazachstan.
The stamp connects our world and outer space, I mean: we watch outer space, thanks to the naked eye and to telescopes, and meanwhile one can watch us, our planet earth, from the same outer space:



Micu sent the following pretty stamps from Hungary. They are part of an eight stamps mini sheet, issued in honour of anniversaries and events in space research:



Doesn't the dog remind also you of the unfortunate pioneer space dog Laika?

In 2015 Hong Kong Post issued stamp series named 'astronomical phenomena'.
This is one stamp from this serie:



By the way, the vessel doesn't belong to the stamp, but to a pictoral postmark!


A stamp issued in Italy in honour of the exploration of Mars:




Sri Lanka has issued a stamp serie about our solar system. Thanks to Ravindra I received and subsequently scanned these:






Are you also surprised that Uranus has a ring around it? In the complete serie (see here) you can see that indeed it is Saturnus who has the clearest and largest ring.

Also the USA Post (USPS) has issued a stamp serie on the outer space. Of which I received these two:



The recent USA international 'forever' stamps show the moon and earth respectively:



In the Netherlands PostNL has issued a so-called 'postset' on Dutch astronaut André Kuipers, who worked for the European Space Agency ESA and went on a space mission twice. The 'postset' exists of a stamp sheet and three postcards. Funny enough the year of issue hasn't been written, neither on the stamp sheet, nor on the postcards front or back side. I remember André Kuipers latest (second) space mission as if it was yesterday, but when I looked it up it appeared to be already five years ago.



This stamp sheet (and my enthusiasm about this sympathetic person) I posted previously, almost three years ago, here.

The postcards I'll add here, too, as it shows beautiful views of and from outer space:








And the circle is round, I'll finish where I started by saying that our Dutch astronaut and his Russian and American colleagues returned back to earth and landed, 1st of July 2012, on a countryside in Kazachstan!

See more stamps on this theme at and via today's Sunday Stamps blog.

In: from Sri Lanka

Nog een mooie vuurtoren van Ravindra uit Sri Lanka. Dit is de Beruwela of Barberyn vuurtoren.
Op de postzegel links het sterrenbeeld Waterman, rechts een heel recente postzegel, namelijk uitgegeven ter gelegenheid van de Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting die dit jaar in november in Sri Lanka plaatsvond.

My second lighthouse from Sri Lanka. Thank you very much, Ravindra, for sending me this beautiful picture!
The lighthouse is called Beruwela or Barberyn lighthouse.
Below on the left stamp you can see the constellation / Zodiac sign 'Aquarius'. The stamp on the right is a very recent one, namely issued for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting which tooik place in November 2013 in Sri Lanka.