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The International Association of Astronomical Artists is a non-profit organization whose members implement & participate in astro & space art projects, promote education about space art & foster international cooperation in artistic work.

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International Association of Astronomical Artists @iaaa.org · Dec 15
The International Association of Astronomical Artists is the only global organisation for space artists, and those who love space art.

Find out more here:
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And take a look at all the spectacular astronomical art hen you visit!
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Years of work involving an amazing team at BBCSstudios Framestore AppleTV, our series #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge is out now on #AppleTV. Huge thanks to everyone involved. All 5 eps have been released!
Prehistoric Planet Ice Age promo card, Woolly mammoths. Giant kangaroo Procoptodon from Prehistoric Planet Ice Age. Homotherium serum from Prehistoric Planet Ice Age.
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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ghostofthesea.bsky.social
I turn 30 today! 🎉

Any chance for some shares? I'd love to be able to share my artwork with more people! <3
Photo of an A5 watercolour painting of 3 small white spotted jellyfish using shades of red and orange, with splatters of paint, and white and black ink for details. In the background are some fake leaves on wood grain. Photo of a watercolour painting of a shoebill stork, in green and blue with splatters and drips of paint around it. Photo of a watercolour painting of a male trumpeter hornbill in profile. Only a purple watercolour is used in different dilutions, with blank India ink and silver calligraphy ink used for details. A dip pen is lay next to the painting. Photo of an A5 watercolour painting of a lineolated parakeet, a small parrot, primarily in green with hints of yellow. Black and white ink is used for details. In the backgorund is wood grain and artificial plants.
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Hoping if any journalists are doing end-of-year Top 10 Lists of Bluesky Feeds, they’ll consider the SciArt Feed 🐡.

One of the oldest Feeds on Bluesky: a curated list of contributors to keep AI out; and the 4th most popular Feed in both Science and Art.
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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jillianscudder.com
I participated in a previous year of this and it was lovely!
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 10d
Artists & Art lovers!

Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!

Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
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November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Ars Technica, on AI and Artists.

“Go generate a bridge and jump off it”: How video pros are navigating AI

I talked with nine creators about economic pressures and fan backlash.
“Go generate a bridge and jump off it”: How video pros are navigating AI
I talked with nine creators about economic pressures and fan backlash.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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MIRA - Shelltopus - OOAK Nebula Octopus Sculpture
✪ Description: This Shelltopus is hand sculpted from polymer clay and has been carefully painted with artist's quality paints. It is attached to a shell and coated in resin. It's painted with artist's...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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yuvharpaz.bsky.social
I am not sure this work is better than my bot's, but I did try to integrate all NIRCam data. I had to compromise the resolution, it was too much for my laptop to handle in full scale.
JWST 🔭: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.
A richly detailed infrared view of the star-forming complex N159 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The frame is filled with thousands of tiny white and blue stars scattered across a dark field. Toward the center and right, large cloudy structures of gas and dust glow in shades of soft gray, blue, and warm orange. Filamentary wisps weave through the scene, outlining bubbles and cavities carved by stellar winds. Brighter knots of light mark young, newly forming stars embedded within the nebula. The overall appearance is a sprawling, textured landscape of turbulent interstellar material illuminated against the star-studded background
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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The Horsehead Nebula is a dark cloud of dense gas and dust located just below the belt of Orion. A visible light view shows a strong silhouette resembling the horse's head used for a knight in chess.

Infrared light, however, reveals a more complex scene, as shown in Hubble's 2013 image. 🔭 🧪
A Horse of a Different Color: The Gaseous Landscape of the Horsehead Nebula in Infrared
The Horsehead Nebula is a dark cloud of dense gas and dust located just below the belt of Orion on the sky. A visible light view shows a strong silhouette resembling the horse's head used for a knight in chess. Infrared light, however, reveals a more co...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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It's been forever since I posted any of my #paleoart. So here you are.

All modeled by me (except the Brachiosaurus) and rendered in #Blender3d
Artwork of a Tyrannosaurus with Gallimimus prey. Sunset, rocky landscape with cycad trees. A Liopleurodon leaps from the water to snatch at a low-flying pterosaur. A pair of Brachiosaurus on a rocky plateau, searching for food. The Permian extinction was the most devastating of all mass extinctions. These animals, Lystrosaurus, are among the lucky species that will survive the holocaust.
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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theseaning.bsky.social
'Arcade Fire'

101,637 ångström frames acquired by Solar Dynamics Observatory are conformed, repaired, graded, blended, rescaled & retimed to create the film with music by Chris Zabriskie.

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SDO - Arcade Fire
YouTube video by Seán Doran
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November 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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These prints will be available until December 1st! Wanted to give a couple extra days after Thanksgiving. 🫶
stellerarts.com Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 5d
Looking for an awesome, nerdy gift for the holidays? Tell your friends & family you want a painting of a Scientifically Accurate Star 😎☀️

Prints available for a limited time & going fast! Especially the small size.

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Me standing next to my painting of a yellow sun balloon holding the balloon I used as reference
November 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
I really wish more scientists & artists were on here. When I go to in-person gatherings it’s really clear what a small sliver of us are here.

And I get it, how many social media collapses do you have to weather before you just give up?

But organizing would be so much easier if we were all here 😭
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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For this week’s newsletter, we are pleased to announce the relaunch of our popular line of premium gaming accessories through a new partnership with Ultimate Custom Mousepads.

Playmats, mousepads, and desk mats are now available in our shop!

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Playmat with rounded corners featuring THE WAY OF KINGS. Description: A cloaked and armored figure raises his sword in salute to a tiny figure in the distance separated by a chasm of broken earth shrouded by mist. A massive storm cell winds gray and blue across the sky intersecting the tip of the extended sword. A bright line of blue runs across the clouds as if etched by the unusual half-hilted, wavy blade. The orange cloak covering most of the figure (as viewed from behind) is decorated with a mass of wild crustacean arms ending in crescent claws. The icon on the pennant, flying tall on a pole held offhand, depicts a crab-like creature. The sky to the right of the storm is tinted warm yellow as the sun peeks out. A sliver of moon can be seen in a blue-sky break between the clouds. In the background left forks of lightning strike at the distant mountains on the horizon.
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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'Moonlight Moonset'

'Moonlight, moonglint and moonset on Expedition 73, 3x real time.'

1,196 images from a time-lapse sequence photographed by Zena Cardman are repaired, remastered and retimed to create this video footage, with music by Stellardrone.

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ISS - Moonlight Moonset
YouTube video by Seán Doran
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November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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francinefox.bsky.social
Have you ever heard of an allonautilus? The fuzzy sea peach at the top of my oil painting is the extremely rare allonautlius. Its only been documented in the wild a couple of times.

*more in comments*

#nautilus #allonautilus #marinelife #cephalopods #wildlifeart #oilpainting 🐡 🦑 #deepseamining
Oil painting of two nautili and one allonautilus on a blue gradient background with patches of copper mica. Each cephalopod has an atomic diagram around it like a halo.
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Night sky in phthalo over Glacier N.P. 10”x10” oil
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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sciencesocks.bsky.social
[On the bench today ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes]

I'm working on these ✨amazing✨ hand-painted #mars #rover pendants as part of my collab with celestial pottery artist @amyraehill.bsky.social 🤩

All one-of-a-kind, launching soon:
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🔭🐡🧪🎨
Rectangular ceramic pendant in with a Martian landscape in red and orange. Showing a tiny Perseverance Mars rover and Ingenuity helicopter flying overhead. Attached to a sterling silver chain. More pendants in the background and some jewelry tools on the edge of the frame.
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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🔭 Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka

Image Credit & Copyright: Aygen Erkaslan

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Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka are the bright bluish stars from east to west (upper right to lower left) along the diagonal in this cosmic vista. Otherwise known as the Belt of Orion, these three blue supergiant stars are hotter and much more massive than the Sun. They lie from 700 to 2,000 light-years away, born of Orion's well-studied interstellar clouds. In fact, clouds of gas and dust adrift in this region have some surprisingly familiar shapes, including the dark Horsehead Nebula and Flame Nebula near Alnitak at the upper right. The famous Orion Nebula itself is off the right edge of this colorful starfield. The telescopic frame spans almost 4 degrees on the sky.
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
ARTISTS!
I need your help!

In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.

Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
A picture of a frog on a leaf with the SICB and Skype a Scientist logos on the bottom right with the following words on top: "Call for Artists!" Learn about the latest animal research adn create art inspired by the science at the SICB meeting in Portland, OR. Deadline to apply: dec 12, Project dates Jan 3-7, Stipend $1000"
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Small: this is an isopod, a small land dwelling crustacean in the genus Armadillidium. Acrylic painting on wood panel. #art #painting #bugs #traditionalart #colorful
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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spacejammie.bsky.social
Looking good! Gotta go give my dog some snuggles though, be back in a bit to finish the last two :)
Another progress shot with an additional layer of gray over the white layers, which start to show the moons dark spots.
November 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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ekvitki.bsky.social
Astronaut

#pixelart #art #space
November 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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PASSAGE: THE AVATAR (1988)
Acrylic on Canvas - 48" x 48"

Initially inspired by a few notes from a Pink Floyd instrumental track, this came to me while floating in a sensory deprivation tank. 1/4
Three classical arches stand tall against a calm cerulean sky at twilight. Transparent spheres, each containing a flicker of flame, float among the pillars of a ruined yet still beautiful structure. Steps lead up from the sand to a broad pedestal set at the center of the arches. Above it a star hangs low on the horizon. In the immediate foreground, a path of stones winds across a shallow tidal pool. Water reflects the vertical lines of the pillars.
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Setting up an unused Space Odyssey shot with the Aries 1B inside the Station V docking area.
Aries 1B model Aries 1B model Aries 1B model Aries 1B model
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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theseaning.bsky.social
'Light Fantastic'

21,837 images across 18 time-lapse sequences photographed by Don Pettit & Butch Wilmore are repaired, remastered and retimed to create 3x real time video footage.

Credit: Butch Wilmore / Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

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ISS - Light Fantastic
YouTube video by Seán Doran
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November 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM