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🎨 merging art + astrophysics ✨ multi-spectral space paintings 🔭 planetary science PhD 🪶 bird nerd, gamer, cloud watcher ⬇️ join email list • shop paintings https://stellerarts.com/pages/leviathans-wake

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · Oct 17

Welcome new Bluesky people!

Hi, I’m Laci! I have a PhD in planetary science, but I decided to leave academia to create my own path—communicating science through art & selling paintings full time. I post about astronomy, weather, share science-inspired paintings, & chat about my life. ✨

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4 panel collage of pictures. Clockwise from top left: my large painting of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, pillars of creation, cosmic cliffs, ring nebula.

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 46m

I wish I could afford one 🥲

Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 51m

It was an eventful weekend getting ~1/3 of Tucson’s yearly precipitation in less than 3 days. This is only the rain from 1 storm that lasted less than 10 minutes! Patting myself on the back for preparing sandbags for our porch & not filling the pool last week.

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Vicky Paints Space @vickypaintsspace.bsky.social · 15h

Ohhh apparently it's #PortfolioDay again!

I'm Vicky, I paint space and use genuine space dust in my original pieces!

Light pollution is such a HUGE issue, that I've made it my life's mission to bring to stars to everyone!

I dabble in astrophotography occasionally too.💜💫

🔭🧪🐡🖌🎨📷

My painting of The Milky Way over Lining Crag.

My painting of the Aurora over mountains.

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 13h

Huzzah, it’s #PortfolioDay !

I’m Danielle and I paint and illustrate spacecraft, planets, and interesting landscapes in watercolor and ink. Fond of ink textures and pointillism. No AI here, just space and rocks/geology. 🪐🪨🚀

Prints and originals available at planetaryartist.com

Thanks for looking!

DUST OF OSIRIS by Danielle Rose Baker. A painting of the top-down view of the opened sample return capsule from the OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu. Circular sections and hexagonal bolts are seen among the rocky material in the middle ring, framed by lotus flower motifs and patterned circles with geometric ink designs drawn in an ancient Egyptian style with gold accents. A ring of painted turquoise, lapis and carnelian rectangles accented with gold surrounds the inkwork. Inspired by the decorative motifs of Tutankhamen’s treasures, and the Art Deco-tinged Egyptian Revival movement that arose from the discovery of said treasures.

DIANA PIERCES THE AZURE SKY by Danielle Rose Baker. An ink illustration of a Saturn V rocket and launch tower during the launch of Apollo IV. The top two-thirds is a roiling sky of clouds rendered in blue, dark teal and navy inks, some with shimmering effects. Outlined against this, the launch tower is seen in shades of brown-orange. The rocket is bathed in warm light and yellow-tinged exhaust expands below, with dark shapes outlining the base of the launch pad.

HUES OF VENUS by Danielle Rose Baker. A pearlescent false-color watercolor painting on black paper of the cloudy atmosphere of Venus as seen by the JAXA Atatsuki spacecraft in 2020. In this view, the clouds are seen in swirls and ribbons of gold and dark blue, combining to blue-grays.

UBEHEBE CRATER by Danielle Rose Baker. A watercolor painting of Ubehebe Crater at Death Valley National Park. An explosive volcanic crater dusted with snow against an overcast sky. The crater wall has many layers, in shades of brown, tan and orange. The foreground is darker brown, with lighter splotches of snow.

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 5h

Thank you!

Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 7h

Definitely not confusing whatsoever 😆

Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 7h

Not to be confused with AppleTV the hardware 😆

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 7h

hi #PortfolioDay ✨

I’m Laci, planetary astrophysicist turned full-time artist. I love merging science + art through vibrant space paintings!

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30x30” oil painting of the Pillars of Creation. There is a partial checkerboard pattern across most of the piece, which weaves together 2 JWST images. The red orange squares are mid-infrared light. The purple blue squares add in near-infrared light bringing thousands of stars into view.

Close up of 30x15” oil painting. This section of a star-forming region looks like the skull of a dragon or Leviathan in dark brown set against a lavender background. The background fades into pink and a peachy orange moving from left to right.

24x24” oil painting of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. A vibrant circular-shaped explosion of magenta, orange, lime green, yellow, and light blue against a background of deep teal with peach stars. The painting is based on a composite image of x-ray, visible, and infrared light. At noon, 4 o clock, and 8 o clock are subtle triangles singling each type of light.

A 24x24” oil painting of the Ring Nebula. Most of the piece is a vibrant ring of complex details beginning with a blue-green center transitioning into orange, yellow, peach, then red. Outside the ring is a deep blue and black. This is the planetary nebula from JWST in near-infrared light. At 11 o clock is a small hexagon and 5 o clock has a larger hexagon. The hexagons are from another JWST image in mid-infrared light. The colors are inverted in the hexagons and the center area (now in red) has more structure at longer wavelengths.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 14h

I'm Amy and I paint celestial pottery with glaze ✨

This started when I wanted to take us on an adventure during the pandemic lockdown. Now, offering pots like these to be part of your daily life feels like another way to keep hope alive.

Newsletter for restocks: amyraehill.com

#PortfolioDay

Bowl featuring a solar eclipse in a cloudy sky with one half in golden daylight and the other a cool blue. Steaks of light cut across the eclipse.

Plate featuring Milky Way over a silhouetted landscape with a cabin, evergreen trees, and one deciduous tree.

Angled cup featuring a shield volcano erupting with lava against a yellow-grey sky on Venus.

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 9h

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 13: Deep Space Network

Posting this one a little late because I got carried away with the details and didn’t finish in time to post yesterday.

Illustration of a giant radio antenna, part of the Derp Space Network (DSN) in orange. Surrounded by a pattern of thick alternating green/black lines, and alternating thick blue/black lines.

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 10h

lmao

Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 10h

And I prefer to block 99% of them and deez nuts someone once in a while for a good laugh

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 12h

I am glad because this was the first comment I woke up to today and I was like hell nahhhhh 😆

Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 12h

My painting is based on a real star-forming region in the Eagle Nebula taken by Hubble. The video talks about science + art. These anti-science people pick weird hills to die on. Like sometimes Jupiter is fake. Sometimes all the planets are real but a rover has never been to Mars. No logic 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 12h

This is my painting of the star-forming region in the Eagle Nebula that he could not comprehend. Prints available next week!

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30x15” canvas on easel of a star-forming region that looks like a spire in lavender, pink, peach, and browns

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 12h

My art is for science lovers, not science-denying transphobes. Masculinity so fragile one deez nuts joke sent him over the edge.

“We can always tell” I’m a cis woman btw lmao