Eleanor Lutz - An Orbit Map of the Solar System
A lovely visualisation of asteroids in our solar system.
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Astronomical Typography
Typography meets astronomy in 16th century books like the Astronomicum Caesareum.
It is arguably the most typographically impressive scientific manual of the sixteenth century. Owen Gingerich claimed it, “the most spectacular contribution of the book-maker’s art to sixteenth-century science.”
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram animation | ESA/Hubble
When I was in Düsseldorf for this year’s excellent Beyond Tellerrand conference, I had the pleasure of meeting Nadieh Bremer, data visualisation designer extraordinaire. I asked her a question which is probably the equivalent of asking a chef what their favourite food is: “what’s your favourite piece of data visualisation?”
There are plenty of popular answers to this question—the Minard map, Jon Snow’s cholera map—but we had just been chatting about Nadieh’s previous life in astronomy, so one answer popped immediately to mind: the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
Stuff in Space
A gorgeous visualisation of satellites in Earth orbit. Click around to grasp the scale of the network.
If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system
A lovely visualisation that combines two of my loves: space, and the correct use of the subjunctive.