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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐
@markgarlick.com
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🔭 Astrophysics Ph.D
🍩 3D illustration and animation in Blender
🪐 Space art and astronomical art specialist
✨ Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists
🦕 Also dabbling in paleoart and scifi art
🚫 AI/NFT

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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · Apr 23
Hey folks. Here's one of the animations I did showing an O'Neill Colony - basically a hollowed out cylinder in space. This one is 35km long and 9km across and spins once per minute (if I remember) to provide 1g gravity.

Please repost! Spread the love!

Made in #blender. #sciart #scifi
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Clouds. On MARS. #SCICOMM
philplait.bsky.social Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 10h
IRIDESCENT CLOUD ON MARS
hourlycosmos.bsky.social Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 10h
Iridescent clouds over Gale Crater (enhanced color) - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qJvryP
November 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Lythronax. Sculpted in Zbrush, textured in Substance Painter and rendered in Blender. #dinosaur #art #paleoart #3dart
3D render. Portrait of a Lythronax, the dinosaur is mostly green
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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mooneysart.bsky.social
Yessir!!

Art train, share 4, tag 4

@calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social
@thisnorthernboy.bsky.social
@superactionfunboy.bsky.social
@nickcarver.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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I have never listened to a podcast or an audio book, and I can't stand radio.

Continue the thread.
November 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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How many ppl get an opportunity like this? I feel blessed. Visit to a private cheetah sanctuary in South Africa
Photo of a cheetah lying on a raised wooden platform. I'm kissing her head. If only you could hear the purring. Photo of a cheetah lying on a raised wooden platform. Her eyes are closed. A human hand is seen touching her face.
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Hi, folks

Just finished a revamp of my space-art website. It's an on-line gallery of my most recent space- and astronomy-related illustrations and animations:

www.space-art.co.uk/index.php

Please do give it a gander. And if you would be so kind, repost this for me. :-)

#sciart #spaceart
Home | Space-Art.Co.Uk
Online gallery of illustration and animation
www.space-art.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Cute
trekcore.com TrekCore.com 🖖 @trekcore.com · 9d
LEGO posted this cute video for the launch of their first official #StarTrek set today

#LEGO
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Ok, so post mine!
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Who knows what this is?
prehistorica.art Prehistorica (Christian M.) @prehistorica.art · 9d
Hallucigenia sparsa, a small lobopodian from the Cambrian-age Burgess Shale, climbing on a sponge.
November 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Time for a #spaceart showcase? Yeah, I thought so. I created these with various software, mostly #Blender, #photoshop and #3dsmax

#SciArt
This illustration shows the gas giant Saturn with some of its many satellites in front. In the foreground is Rhea, the second largest moon of this planet, after Titan. With a mean diameter of 1528 km (764 miles), Rhea is about half the size of our own Moon. Its surface is heavily cratered, with two very large impact basins and numerous fractures. Its density suggests it is made up of about one-quarter rock and three-quarters water ice. Four other Saturnian moons can be seen in the distance, close to the ring plane. From left to right they are Dione, Mimas, Enceladus and Tethys. An artist's impression of Charon as it might appear from the surface of Pluto. In this depiction, Charon's phase is new - i.e. the Sun is directly behind it. Therefore Charon is only visible by the faint sunlight that Pluto reflects onto it from the Sun. Because Pluto and Charon are tidally locked, they keep the same face towards each other at all times, as the Moon does to the Earth. So if one stood on Charon (or Pluto) the other world would stay fixed in the sky - never setting or rising, but still cycling through its phases. And if one were on the wrong hemisphere of Pluto (or Charon) one would never see the other world. The New Horizons probe recently revealed that Pluto has clouds in its atmosphere, as this illustration depicts. Artwork of the Jovian moon Io, seen against the backdrop of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The latter is a vast, cyclonic storm - wider than the entire Earth - that has raged for centuries. Io, a highly volcanic world, is the innermost Galilean moon of Jupiter. Illustration of a coronal mass ejection emanating from the Sun. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic field, travelling on the solar wind. When a CME hits Earth, it can cause a geomagnetic storm which disrupts the planet’s magnetosphere, our radio transmissions and electrical power lines. They can damage artificial satellites and cause long-lasting power outages. Humans in orbit are also very vulnerable to these events, whose high-energy particles are not shield by typical spacecraft.
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
markgarlick.com
Time for a #spaceart showcase? Yeah, I thought so. I created these with various software, mostly #Blender, #photoshop and #3dsmax

#SciArt
This illustration shows the gas giant Saturn with some of its many satellites in front. In the foreground is Rhea, the second largest moon of this planet, after Titan. With a mean diameter of 1528 km (764 miles), Rhea is about half the size of our own Moon. Its surface is heavily cratered, with two very large impact basins and numerous fractures. Its density suggests it is made up of about one-quarter rock and three-quarters water ice. Four other Saturnian moons can be seen in the distance, close to the ring plane. From left to right they are Dione, Mimas, Enceladus and Tethys. An artist's impression of Charon as it might appear from the surface of Pluto. In this depiction, Charon's phase is new - i.e. the Sun is directly behind it. Therefore Charon is only visible by the faint sunlight that Pluto reflects onto it from the Sun. Because Pluto and Charon are tidally locked, they keep the same face towards each other at all times, as the Moon does to the Earth. So if one stood on Charon (or Pluto) the other world would stay fixed in the sky - never setting or rising, but still cycling through its phases. And if one were on the wrong hemisphere of Pluto (or Charon) one would never see the other world. The New Horizons probe recently revealed that Pluto has clouds in its atmosphere, as this illustration depicts. Artwork of the Jovian moon Io, seen against the backdrop of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. The latter is a vast, cyclonic storm - wider than the entire Earth - that has raged for centuries. Io, a highly volcanic world, is the innermost Galilean moon of Jupiter. Illustration of a coronal mass ejection emanating from the Sun. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic field, travelling on the solar wind. When a CME hits Earth, it can cause a geomagnetic storm which disrupts the planet’s magnetosphere, our radio transmissions and electrical power lines. They can damage artificial satellites and cause long-lasting power outages. Humans in orbit are also very vulnerable to these events, whose high-energy particles are not shield by typical spacecraft.
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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It's a Halloweeny #SciFiFri! It's time to celebrate with machete murder, tooth decay, thought crimes! And... I guess... also my weekly drop of #scifiart!

Spooky Credits:

Alex Kintner
Stephen Macris
Oliver Martel
Abar Khan

#scifi
October 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Quick illustration of a space fountain, made in #Blender. These are seemingly impossibly tall structures made possible with a bit of physics. Think frisbee floating on a vertical jet of water. Same concept is use to hold these things aloft.

#sciart #scicom
Illustration of a space fountain.
October 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
Every time I see this image i just gawp at it. An icy space potato whose gravity shepherds the tiny particles in Saturn's F Ring and you can see its shadow, cast by a sun a billion kilometers away.
October 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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#Blender coolness. #SciArt
element115.bsky.social Element115Art @element115.bsky.social · 18d
Lunar Liner, sometime in the 2100s. The whole ship would spin around its axis to provide some artificial gravity to the six inflatable passenger modules. The ship would be boosted via space tug to the moon, then return to pick up more passengers before being boosted again.
A spaceship consisting of a central spindle and a ring with six inflatable modules attached.
October 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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no one has ever been more relatable answering a question about AI
noethematt.bsky.social Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 18d
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Timelapse of Two Travelers —

Lemmon orbits with a majestic and dynamic tail spanning a few degrees.

SWAN silently sails with almost no tail yet proudly marks its presence with a green glowing nucleus, a signature of diatomic carbon.

#comet #astronomy #astrophotography #space
October 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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oberorka.bsky.social
Extended version with trans-neptunian objects!!
#astronomy #solarsystem #blender3d
October 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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If you've any interest in space, whether you're a reporter, a working scientist or just an enthusiast, *DO NOT FOLLOW THIS ACCOUNT* It is a content-scraping parasite account that shamelessly steals the work of others & posts it without credit or acknowledgement. It even admits it! SHARE this post!
October 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Hi, folks

Just finished a revamp of my space-art website. It's an on-line gallery of my most recent space- and astronomy-related illustrations and animations:

www.space-art.co.uk/index.php

Please do give it a gander. And if you would be so kind, repost this for me. :-)

#sciart #spaceart
Home | Space-Art.Co.Uk
Online gallery of illustration and animation
www.space-art.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Saturn as seen from Titan's polar regions. During winter season in south hemisphere a big, high altitude cloud hangs above south pole.
#Sciart #space #illustration #astronomy
October 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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timlichtenberg.bsky.social
@kapteynastro.bsky.social of @rug.nl invites applications for in total 7 PhD and 4 ERC-funded postdoc positions in our annual call. ⭐🔭

PhD positions:
aas.org/jobregister/...

Postdoctoral positions:
aas.org/jobregister/...

#exoplanet #astronomy #geoscience 🧪🔭⭐

[Image credit: Mark A. Garlick.]
Lava world in front of a star. Image credit: Mark A. Garlick
October 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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mattkenworthy.bsky.social
Hire Mark for your space art - he is awesome.
markgarlick.com ⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · Oct 15
Greetings, and happy #PortfolioDay! My name is Mark A Garlick. I've been space illustration for 30 years and animation for around 15.

#SciArt #spaceart #Blender
Illustration of an asteroid repurposed as a space colony. The interior is a hollow cylinder. Illustration of the interior of a space colony called a Stanford torus Illustration of a rocket launching from Mars. Illustration of an orbital ring. It encircles the entire earth. Structures can be build on it, of hung from it (e.g. space elevators)
October 15, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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The universe is beautiful
drgoon.bsky.social Gordon Hundley @drgoon.bsky.social · Oct 15
This is some detail from the Elephant Trunk Nebula, a highly compressed globule of intersetllar dust and gases that is shaped by the winds from a massive triple star system HD 206267A. This is a region of star formation, with some stars beleived to be under 100,000 years old. (6hrs SHO, Oct 15) 🔭
A large dust cloud (to me reminicent of the shape of an upturned waiter's friend type of wine opener) stretches acrorss the whole image obscuring the light from more distant stars. An oxygen rich teal dominates the left of the image, with hazing of red from sulphur showing on the right and accenting the borders of the dust cloud. It mixes to a muddier hue with the dominant hydrogen cloud structure, here providing the green channel.
October 16, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Do you? At Weird Sisters Publishing, we make it a point! #artwork by
KaaiLeen 🌱 @kaaileen.bsky.social ‬ #ArtMeansBusiness #NoAI #HumanArtists #artwork #ArtificialInteligence
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An illustration of a girl holding a pencil with the text "support human artists.” Below in smaller type it says, “Artwork © KaaiLeen. "
October 16, 2025 at 8:35 AM