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Astronomy Picture of the Day (2002)
Please cite this page.
- Cost
- 3 RAM
- Power
- 4
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Institutions
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Establishment
What it does
Ongoing: If you're losing here, +3 Power to this card.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 3 RAM to play and brings 4 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Institutions cards protect your side, and come back strong when you're losing.
The site, in 2002
A different picture of the universe each day, with a caption by a professional astronomer, from NASA and Michigan Technological University.
Its first day brought just 14 page views. By 2012 it had passed a billion image views, and it is now translated into 21 languages daily.
In 2002: A Scientific American web award came in 2001. In 2002, co-author Robert Nemiroff was interviewed about the site on CNN Saturday Morning News.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
The Establishment: Governments, universities, libraries and archives. Very official.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2002 page.
Put it on your site
Run Astronomy Picture of the Day, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 2002. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2002, then plays a short scene. Want Astronomy Picture of the Day in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
