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Capturing the cosmos on canvas: How art helps scientists and space agencies communicate with the public

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Ed Belbruno is a visiting research collaborator in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University .

His pastel painting, 'Low Fuel Route to the Moon ' ( 1986 ), is featured in the exhibition touring ESA .

The artist's brush strokes reveal a trajectory in the brush strokes to the Earth and the moon .

The pastel payoff was a precise numerical algorithm to generate these trajectories.

ESA 's SMART-1 lunar mission used pastel artwork by artist/astrophysicist/artist Belbruno .

Ballistic capture transfers are now used in many lunar missions.

"This may be the first time a painting was directly used to make a mathematical/scientific discovery," he said.

Other works include " Microwave Energy of the Universe " based on images produced by NASA 's WMAP and ESA 's Planck.

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