Pre Stamped Envelope Australia -International Year of Astronomy –2009
2009 was celebrated as International Year of Astronomy and it coincided with 400th Anniversary of the first recorded astronomical observations with a telescope by Galileo Galilei and the publication of Johannes Kepler’s Astronomia nova in the 17th Century.
Australia issued a Pre Stamped Envelope (55c) ON 25 AUG 2009 to mark the International Year of Astronomy .The envelope features the Christmas tree cluster,fox fur nebula and cone nebula.
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