Played Ada’s Dream this weekend. It’s a heavy board game that inhabits the world of Ada Lovelace.
You can give lectures at the Royal Astronomical Society and the door even looks familiar.
Such a love letter to the history of science.
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Image: Meeple Mountain
While this may look like the Moon, it’s actually Mercury.
In this enhanced colour view, young crater rays appear light blue or white.
Medium and dark blue areas are opaque crust minerals.
Tan areas are plains formed by the eruption of lava.
#astronomy
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Image: MESSENGER
The Great Comet of 1881 & Jupiter
Video
The Space Art of Étienne Trouvelot now sits in my Museum
Of Cosmic Curiosities.
It’s a growing collection of strange, profound artefacts from the history of astronomy.
museum.colinstuart.net
A solar eclipse
With all the Moon mania on the back of Artemis II, here’s one of my favourite pieces of lunar art.
It’s from the 19th century artist Étienne Trouvelot, who used the chromolithography technique.
There’s more of his artwork in the 🧵 below
#astronomy 🧪
