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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.
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Image: MESSENGER
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
The Great Comet of 1881 & Jupiter
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
Astronomer Edwin Brant Frost’s 10 yr old son demanded pocket money, which he used to buy two sheep with a friend.
The animals grazed near the Yerkes Observatory & the entrepreneurial kids sold the wool for profit.
That was until the sheep ate the new bathing suit of Dr Crump.
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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
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