Ever wondered what it would be like to be an astronomer? This game is your window into the world of professional astronomy. Telescopes, space rocks, pretty pictures - this game truly has it all!
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We're just a bunch of astrophysicists who made a game showing off how the field of astronomy really works.
Eesha is a graduate student at the University of Toronto. She works on making computer models of stars, their rotation, and how they interact with the stars around them. She dabbles in too many hobbies and sometimes takes on wild science outreach projects like making a card game.
Ashley is a graduate student at the University of Toronto. She studies small structures of gas in the interstellar medium by looking at how they scatter the light from pulsars. She uses computer simulations, theory, and radio observations to learn more about the interstellar medium.
Rachel is a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, studying the ever so mysterious dwarf galaxies that orbit our very own Milky Way. Her research focuses on looking at binary star systems and trying to discover what they can tell us about the dark matter dense dwarf galaxies that they call home.
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Keegan, Bolin, George, Yunting Wang, Mercedes, Kathryn Crowter, Sharon, Vida Saeedzadeh, and Kurt B
The development for Astromania: The Astronomy Card Game is based in Toronto, which is situated on traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land. Acknowledging the traditional territory on which we live and work is a small but important step that reminds us to learn more about the Indigenous peoples in these regions, to consider the history and ongoing colonialism on this land and to reflect on how each of us can contribute to reconciliation.
