A new stamp joins the Leisure and Hobbies series dedicated this time to Astronomy, choosing to illustrate it with a night photograph of a mysterious sky where the dome of the Madrid Planetarium appears.
Since ancient times, human beings, driven by necessity and also by admiration for nature and its reality, have developed an instinct for exploration inherent to their own condition, which has led them to explore the most remote corners of their planet. . Perhaps also for this reason, he has related heaven to all those issues that transcend the material and immediate world: love, destiny, fortune, life and death. That spirit of adventure and fascination has expanded the boundaries of his knowledge and at the same time his desire to know everything that surrounds him. This is how Science emerged.
Since it opened its doors in September 1986, more than 7 million visitors have visited the Madrid Planetarium. In addition to its ordinary activity, in which the public can visit exhibitions and watch fulldome films in the projection dome, this Center also carries out other types of very varied extraordinary activities: astronomy courses, children's workshops, conferences, concerts, observations with telescopes, etc. that attract thousands of people; and also many online activities with an impact of millions of people from all over the world witnessing them. Over the years, the Madrid Planetarium has become a scientific and cultural reference and has created a very important brand in our country and beyond our borders.
Under the dome of the Planetarium a dialogue is established between science and music. Thanks to the perfect symbiosis between the space of the universe and the time of music, the viewer enjoys the beauty of the images of the Cosmos, explores its most unique corners, discovers worlds around other stars; attends its birth, evolution and death; goes deep inside black holes; witness collisions between galaxies and glimpse what the origin of the Universe could have been like.
