I have an image of Uranus in our guest bathroom. No one has ever commented on it. Not that I have a butt-ton of visitors or anything. Which probably explains most of my this problem.
The image I have framed and displayed shows a turquoiseish-colored planet with vertical rings. Within the image are clouds of dust and stars in the background, artistic freedoms surely added by the artist to bless the image with some environmental context.
The question is: which depiction of the planet (Uranus, that is) would be most recognizable to the general public?
Perhaps this is really a lost cause, and the only chuckles I should look forward to are my own. I mean, other than the folks on this board, who is gonna know which planet -or even that it’s a planet- is on display.
That’s not to overlook the question, “If not planet Uranus, which planet would one display in their bathroom”. That question is also read as, “Isn’t an image of Uranus in a bathroom an obvious joke?”
I don’t think there is any such image that would work without an explicit caption. Quite few non-astronomy people could tell it apart from Neptune. And people just aren’t likely to analyze something without prompting.
But when the wiener visits Uranus, now that gets the point across
On the other hand, this is the most representative image of the planet, because you just can’t see anything on a featureless gray-blue ball that far from the sun, and the rings are probably too dark to see with the naked eye if you were in orbit.
I’d have a picture of Saturn, because, seriousy? A picture of Uranus in a bathroom is too obvious,
