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Cat @timesnewfishcat.bsky.social · Nov 11

been making a comic since the start of the year :3 it's a small town mystery
thistlecliffe.tumblr.com
#comic #webcomic

A cliff rises above the forest with the crescent moon in the sky. At the base of the cliff, the lights of a town turn on at dusk.

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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 1h

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 25: Historic Mission

Used this art in the #Apollo board game and is actual size at the rocket park in @nysci.bsky.social

#sciart #spaceart #artchallenge

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 1d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 23: Space Station

The final logo for 25 years of human presence ended up being very human-focused, but I always loved my initial concept of using the ISS to create the number 25. Today’s prompt was the perfect excuse to revive that concept with a new design.

#sciart

At the center is an illustration of the international space station with additional angled lines on each side both above and below the space station to form the number “25”. Both above and below this visual are the words “25 years of human presence”. The entire illustration is in shades of blue against a black background.

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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 1d

The BIGGEST Alligator Gar I’ve ever encountered!!!

Truly GARgantuan, tagged and released!

A fish scientist places his hand on the head of a giant Alligator Gar.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 1d

Perseverance on the other side of the planet today.
science.nasa.gov/mission/mars...

Photo of a cluster of science instruments on a turret, with desert hills under the Sun in the background. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 3d

Alien robot on Mars!

(We're the aliens.)

Instruments on Curiosity rover's robotic "hand" seen on Oct. 14. mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimed...

Black-and-white photo of a drill bit and a cluster of other science instruments on a turret, with layered rock hills in a desert landscape in the background. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Sami Mark @samimarkart.bsky.social · 2d

i’m drawing microscopic things again the earth is healing 🐡🐙

A cartoony drawing of a tardigrade and a water flea, surrounded by various shapes of diatoms. they are drawn in bright colors with a wobbly lineart style against a light grey background

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 4d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 20: Telescope.

Telescopes are time machines. Featuring the Hubble Space Telescope.

#sciart #spaceart #hubble #illustration

Illustration of the Hubble Space Telescope in orange, red, and pink with a black outline at the center over a golden yellow background. At the top, above the illustration, are the words “telescopes are” and at the bottom, below the illustration, are the words “time machines”. Both are in pink and combine to make the phrase, telescopes are time machines.

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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 4d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 20 - Telescopes

#JWST from our #SpaceTelescopes poster series | #spaceArt #sciArt

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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 4d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 20 - Telescopes

#planet Finders from our #SpaceTelescopes poster series featuring #Kepler #Tess and #Spitzer | #spaceArt #sciArt

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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 4d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 20 - Telescopes

#Hubble from our #SpaceTelescopes poster series | #spaceArt #sciArt

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 4d

Planetary Rings

xkcd.com/3156/

Comic. Two-column table. Column A lists planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Column B has checkmark boxes for whether the planets have rings: the outer planets’ boxes are checked, and Earth has a red check. [Earth with a ring with an array pf points around it. An arrow labeled “Geostationary Satellite Bel”t points to the ring.] [caption] Astronomy fact: A century ago, Earth didn’t have rings, but we have one now! It’s where all the satellite dishes are pointed.

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 5d

Some recent hens. They do look good together like this. 🐔

Friendly reminder that I have a Ko-fi by way of a tip jar, if you enjoy my work and would like to send a little material support. Thank you so much to everyone who contributes. ☺️🥲🙏💙

Link also in profile.
ko-fi.com/himmapaan

Four small silhouette drawings in black ink, each about the size of a business card, of a hen encountering another small animal in each one: a dragonfly, a frog, a wren, and a squirrel.

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 6d

I fell down a rabbit hole on rare tardigrades and found the King of Special Interests, a professor at Tohoku who describes new species of marine tardigrades, made a website about them, and named one N. lovedeluxe in 2013 after something from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. I can only hope to be so cool.

"Neostygarctus lovedeluxe" species of tardigrade, photos of dorsal and ventral. It is a segmented organism with long hair and eight legs

"The specific epithet, lovedeluxe, refers to 'Love Deluxe', the name of a supernatural power enabling one to have complete control over one's hair, which appeared in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond Is Unbreakable, a famous Japanese manga written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. The hairy appearance of the new species appears as if affected by the power of 'Love Deluxe'.

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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 6d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 18 - #Mars Mission

This is the perfect image for this theme! Created for @planetarysociety.bsky.social Day of Action in Washington DC (which I just recently participated in). Shown are the t-shirt and poster variations | #spaceArt #sciArt

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Jackie Burns @artistburns.bsky.social · 6d

Spacetober Challenge - the Prompt today is Mars/Mars Mission. This is my digitally drawn portrait of Perseverance Rover, which is currently exploring the Jezero Crater where it landed in February 2021 & is searching for signs of ancient microbial life. Created using Adobe Fresco. #spacetober #sciart

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 6d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 18: Mars/Mars Mission

Perseverance and Ingenuity. The Mars 2020 mission.

#sciart #spaceart #mars #space

Illustration of the Mars Perseverance Rover and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in orange, yellow, white and green with a black outline. They are surrounded by a pattern of lines in the same color. At the top on hand-drawn, groovy type is the word “perseverance”. At the bottom is the word “ingenuity” in the same style.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 6d

Selfie

Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah

Some guy standing on a salt encrusted plain under a clear night sky overflowing with stars and an explosion of colorful airglow. Always wish you were here with me.

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Cat @timesnewfishcat.bsky.social · 8d

grand finale
#spaceart #saturn #cassini

a close up of saturn. blazing a trail into its atmosphere is cassini during the grand finale

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Cat @timesnewfishcat.bsky.social · 8d

grand finale
#spaceart #saturn #cassini

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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 10d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 14 - Spacecraft

Yeah. There’s more. Sixth one up #NewHorizons at #Pluto | #spaceArt #sciArt

Poster of New Horizons spacecraft at Pluto with Charon behind it.

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 10d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 14: Spacecraft

Featuring, Orion. More specifically the Artemis II Orion Spacecraft, which the crew has named, Integrity.

#sciart #spaceart #Artemis #space

Illustration of the Artemis II Orion Spacecraft, Integrity, in blue at the center of a patch-style illustration. Surrounding Orion is a circle with the word “Integrity” filling the space both above and below the spacecraft within the circle.

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avi 🌧️ @barghest-land.bsky.social · 11d

A lot of feelings that are more than words

(I guess, in a way, #paleoart)

A digital drawing, few simple drawings on a dark background. From top to the bottom, it starts with half of the Earth seen with its continents being placed like in the Middle Ordovician. Below it is a line, showing a process of life - from one little star, to dividing cells, to an embryo (it's all different creatures - fish, dog, tadpole, and a human).
Then, series of little drawings, showing different stages of life in different things. A plant emerging from the soil, a larvae, baby birds with their bright open mouths, pregnant horse with a star on its belly, very old human, and a dry plant in a pot with a leaf falling from it.
A fossil of a crinoid can be seen on the background, in some places nicely preserved, in some - scattered around, with segments seen as little stars.
The text on the picture says: "Let sunshine touch the memory of me again"

Following the previous part of it, from top to the bottom: mammal bones scattered around, a fossil of a trilobite on a rock, human remains, a piece of a fossilized plant, little drawing of an ammonite, a part of a thylacine seen in a little square, and in a square next to it - plate with fossilized fish, being shattered.
Below them is a line - an ornitomimus running forward, its fossilized remains, and on the right - same remains, but scattered around in little pieces.
The text goes through the drawing, saying "I will remain. I will remain. I will remain"
The first phrase is written normally, the second is written fast. The last one is poorly written by my left hand, without looking at the screen.

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South Pole Telescope @sptelescope.bsky.social · 11d

First plane of the 2025-2026 Austral summer season landed at #southpole today! Pic by SPT winterover Sim Bash. This flight is an KBA flight Bassler plane, which is just transiting through @NSF Amundsen-Scott South Pole, on its way to an Italian base. #Antarctica @UChicago

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 12d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 12: Eclipse

Three eclipses, one graphic. From top to bottom: Lunar Eclipse, Solar Eclipse, and Annular Eclipse

#sciart #spaceart #eclipse #illustration

Illustration featuring three diagrams of the different types of eclipses. Top: Lunar Eclipse, Middle: Solar Eclipse, Bottom: Annular Eclipse. Surrounded by a pattern of blue, green, and yellow rectangles.

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Kiabugboy @kiabugboy.bsky.social · 12d

The Crinoid hat video is up on my channel!
youtu.be/ZdPTYamnqQA

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