College students and fellow stargazers in Tokushima Prefecture have invented an astronomy-based card game aimed at raising interest in viewing space. Messier Cards, named after French astronomer Charles Messier (1730-1817), were developed using his catalogue of space objects as a reference, as well as photos of the Andromeda Galaxy, the Pleiades star cluster and other astronomical bodies taken at a local science facility. Descriptions of them are printed on the cards. Read more