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For #spacetober_challenge day 31 prompt future: “Take the Europa Express, your passport to the Galilean Moons!” 🧪🐡 My linocut is a space travel poster for a future where we all share the citizenship of Earth and can take rapid transport to Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, 🧵
As described, my linocut is a space travel poster for a future where we all share the citizenship of Earth and can take rapid transport to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, known as the Galilean Moons (named after Galileo, who first observed them with a telescope. There’s a view of a section of Jupiter with big red spot and its moon Europa. Text reads “Take the Europa Express, your passport to the Galilean Moons.” There’s a hand holding a blue passport with a ticket in it. The passport has a stylized image of Earth with the symbol for Earth and the words “Earth Passport” on it. Each print is burnished by hand onto lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper in a creamy ivory colour, 8" x 10" (or 20.3 cm by 25.4 cm).
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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For #spacetober_challenge prompt day 30 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 #histsci galaxy - astronomer Vera Rubin (neé Cooper, ‘28-‘16) & her discovery that angular motion of galaxies deviates from predictions, 1st evidence for dark matter, now known as 5x as common as matter & the stuff which dictates dynamics of galaxies & 🧵
My linocut portrait of astronomer Vera Rubin with short hair, glasses and resting her face in her hand in burgundy on a background of outer space with stars and galaxies in black with blue and pink splotches to mimic how dust bends light in space. At the base of the print is a large spiral galaxy with a plot of orbital velocity versus distance going out from its centre (so the distance axis is indeed distance from centre). There are two lines labelled “observed” which goes up from the origin and then is a pretty flat wavy line all the way across. This line marks the bottom of Rubin. Below it is a wide empty gap of visible white paper down to the second line labelled “predicted”. The Predicted line goes up from the origin to a peak where it diverges from the observed and falls smoothly back down in a gentle curve.
October 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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For #spacetober_challenge day 29 prompt orbit: #mathematician and #astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)! 🧪🐡🧮🎢🔭 #histsci We remember him for his role in the Scientific Revolution, and his three laws of planetary motion in particular. His laws modified Copernicus’ heliocentric model; he replaced 🧵
My linocut portrait of Johannes Kepler on cream coloured washi paper. Kepler is in Renaissance garb printed in indigo. He holds a compass and rests his hand on his model of nested Platonic solids from Mysterium Cosmographicum, printed in gold ink. Above that in silver in are 7 musical staves with notes next to symbols for related planetary bodies: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Over his other shoulder are 3 schematic diagrams drawn in ellipses (oriented with the semi-major axes horizontal) in magenta. The top one relates to his first law and shows an ellipse cut in two horizontally, the two foci labelled F and F’ and a triangle drawn to a point P on the ellipse (FPF’). The middle ellipse (2nd law) shows the Sun at a focus, and a series of circles on the ellipse as a planet such that the sections are equal area and alternate colouring (magenta or none) like a peppermint. The bottom ellipse (3rd law) is cut in half with semi-major and semi-minor axes shown
October 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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She suffered a stroke but persisted & completed a PhD in Public Administration from Virginia Tech in 2018 at age 88!

#spacetober_challenge prompt Earth
#linocut #printmaking #BlackInSTEM
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October 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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For the #Spacetober_challenge day 27 prompt habitat, my speculative little painting of a future where tourists can visit Venus. (I’m swapping day 26 and 27). With 90 times Earth’s atmospheric pressure and a surface temperature which can reach 460°C and melt lead, 🧵1/2

#sciart #SpaceArt
As described this is my small painting of a speculative travel poster for a future where tourists can visit the atmosphere of Venus. There are bright clouds in yellow, pink and orange with a small gold shuttle and a white high altitude balloon with an oval shaped suspended gold pod. Both vehicles have blue windows. Gold lettering reads, “Take a Heavenly Holiday in the Venusian Skies”
October 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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For Day 25 #spacetober_challenge: historic missions-my portrait of mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020). 🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬🧮 #histsci One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery🧵
My linocut portrait of Katherine Johnson in a upward gradient of raspberry to purple ink (she is a Black woman in a shirt dress, with pearls, glasses and a watch, holding a pencil, facing left with her arms out on an unseen table like she was writing, looking at the viewer over her right shoulder). Behind her on the right is the Project Mercury rocket with capsule and launch trajectory in black. Beside her on right is the Earth in blue with two images of the Moon in silver above to show the trajectory for the Apollo Lunar Module.
October 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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For the #spacetober_challenge day 24 prompt jet/plane I made a new #womenInSTEM 🧪🐡 #histsci #linocut: trailblazing Canadian aeronautical engineer Elsie MacGill (1905 – 1980), born in Vancouver, became the first woman aeronautical engineer & professional aircraft designer in North America, & likely 🧵
Lino block portrait of aeronautical engineer Elsie MacGill shows her from the shoulders up wearing a suit and glasses with wavy short hair back, with a Hawker Hurricane above her and several tiny ones flying in front of her as well as a Maple Leaf Trainer II airplane by her head. The print is made in an ink gradient of green at the top, followed by gold in the middle and green again at the bottom on cream coloured Japanese washi paper, 9.25” x 12.5”, numbered, titled “Elsie MacGill, Queen of the Hurricanes” and signed Ele Willoughby, 2025.
October 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
artistburns.bsky.social
Jet/Plane is the prompt for today’s Spacetober Challange. This is my digital artwork of the Shuttle piggyback on a specially adapted Boeing 747. From my Circles Portfolio. #spacetober_challenge #sciart #digital
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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For the #Spacetober_challenge day 23 prompt space station I made a tiny linocut print of the track of the ISS across the night sky.

#linocut #printmaking #miniprint #night #forest #spaceArt #sciArt 🧪
As described this is a very small linocut print of the night sky in blue with carved stars, Milky Way and a line across the sky and a line of silhouettes of evergreen trees in black along the bottom.
October 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
artistburns.bsky.social
The prompt for today’s #spacetober_challenge is Space Station. My digital artwork celebrates the Russian MIR space station. #sciart #spacestation #digital
October 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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For Day 21 of #spacetober_challenge prompt star: trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭#histsci 🧵
My linocut of Annie Jump Cannon shows her in a 3/4 profile view wearing a shirt with a lace collar and her hair up. She is printed in a gradient of violet at the bottom to green at the top, printed on white 11” x 14” paper. The background is printed in a gradient (left to right) of dark blue, light blue, yellow, pale yellow, pale orange, orange and red. The background block excludes her silhouette of shoulder and head with the exception of a smattering of small dots in a swath from upper left to lower right (which extends to white spots on the coloured background). Also along the bottom are a series of circles of decreasing size (left to right, blue through red) labelled O, B, A, F, G, K, M. There’s a axis line along the bottom with 6 tick marks. Vertically from top to bottom along the left side are 15-, 10-, 5-, 0, 5, 20, 15.
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Today’s prompt in @spacetober_challenge is Star. I thought I’d share a digital composition that I ve created and use as part of my Sciart & science art workshop resources. Science outreach is one of my passions - the sharing of science knowledge through fun and creativity. #Spacetober #Sciart
October 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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For #spacetober_challenge prompt telescope: #astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell as a grad student in ‘67 discovered the 1st radio pulsar, a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star that emits a beam of EM radiation. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭#histsci This radiation can only be observed when the star is pointed towards 🧵
My linocut print ‘Jocelyn Bell and the LGM-1’ showing the young astronomer in dark grey ink holding a sheet of paper, smiling while looking over her shoulder, dressed in a pea coat, cat’s eye glasses and pigtails. Behind her in green is her famous pulsar dataset like a series of horizontal parallel lines, each with an irregular peak in the middle, resembling a mountain range on a topographical map.
October 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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#Spacetober_Challenge prompt is telescope. Here is my digital artwork of Jodrell Bank Mark 1A Radio Telescope. From my Circles Portfolio.
October 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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One for #spacetober_challenge: Mars

I’ll post the making of and the finished papercut on Instagram! (Same username as here)

#Mars #sciart
October 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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For the #spacetober_challenge day 18 prompt: Mars/Mars mission: This is a mini hand-pulled linocut 7” x 5”of Opportunity the Martian Rover. 🧪🐡🔭The print is in a gradient of rusty orange &black on ivory Japanese washi paper. Launched July 8, 2003, Opportunity (Oppie to his fans) was active on Mars 🧵
My small 7” x 5” Opportunity the Martian Rover. The print is in a gradient of rusty orange and black on ivory Japanese washi paper.
October 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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For the #Spacetober_challenge prompt historic person, day 17, 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 #histsci I’m sharing my portrait of British-born, American #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) who was one of the people instrumental in building our understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis, how nuclei are produced in
My linocut portrait of Margaret Burbidge shows the astrophysicist in gold in from the shoulders up looking directly at the viewer. She has short hair with a little curl and wears a short-sleeved button down shirt with wide stripes. Behind her in black ink is space complete with stars and galaxies. At the base in the centre is a semicircular diagram (flat side down) of a supergiant star cross section in a radial gradient of yellow to red with small radiating irregular spikes. This is overprinted in black concentric rings labelled from the centre out: Fe, Si,O, Ne, C, He, H. At the bottom is a stellar adsorption spectrum: a thin horizontal strip with rainbow gradient of violet at the left through to red at the right with sporadic black vertical stripes. It is printed by hand on ivory Japanese washi paper, 11” x 14”
October 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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New print for #Spacetober_challenge prompt day 16: parachute! 🪂 🧪🐡🔭

This is a collaged lino block print with an image of the parachute deployed during the descent of the Mars Perseverance rover as it landed on the planet February 18, 2021. The spacecraft team selected the red and white stripes 🧵
As described this is my slightly stylized collaged lino block print with an image of the parachute deployed during the descent of the Mars Perseverance rover as it landed on the planet February 18, 2021. The spacecraft team selected the red and white stripes to encode a secret message in binary: "DARE MIGHTY THINGS" along with the latitude and longitude of the Jet Propulsion Labs, in Pasadena, California (34°11’58” N 118°10’31” W). The letters and numbers appear in black. This 8" x 8" print is made by hand on lovely Japanese papers.
October 16, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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For #spacetober_challenge day 15 prompt blackhole: my 6” x 8” mono print, built up with layers of ink on a gel plate of a Super Massive Blackholes (SMBH) with relativistic jets.

#printmaking #gelPlatePrinting #blackhole #astronomy #spaceArt #sciart 🧪

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My mono print built up with layers of ink on a gel plate of a Super Massive Blackhole (SMBH) with relativistic jets. It looks like a very dark black half-sphere with flattened bulge under it, surrounded by swirling reds and oranges in a wide ring, with two pale blue narrow cones going up and down (the jets) against the black of space.
October 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
artistburns.bsky.social
Prompt for today’s Spacetober Challenge is Blackhole. This is my digital draft of a blackhole. I’ll be painting it in acrylic on stretched canvas after Christmas. From my Circles Portfolio. #Spacetober_Challenge #sciart
October 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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For day 12 of #spacetober_challenge prompt eclipse: #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) and her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧮🔭 #histsci She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet, 🧵
My linocut print of mathematician & astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) in a vertical gradient (bottom to top) of bright pink to lavender on white paper. She wears a wig and gown and the portrait is from the chest to head. Her 12 diagrams of the phases of the annular the solar eclipse of 1764 as viewed from Paris appear across her shoulders. Behind her head in green is her map of the path of the eclipse across Europe.
October 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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I took this photo in June 2021. The sky was filled with fast moving lacy clouds that meant I could occasionally view the partial eclipse seemingly nestled on a rainbow coloured bed of clouds. #Spacetober_challenge
October 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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For #spacetober_challenge day 11 prompt asteroid, my wee little mini #linocut asteroid

#printmaking #sciart #spaceArt #asteroid 🧪🔭
My mini linocut asteroid has a 2” x 2” printed area on a 4”x 4” cream coloured paper. The image shows an irregular silver rock on a black background with circular black outlined craters. The print is marked “1/12 Asteroid Ele Willoughby 2012”
October 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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For day 9 #spacetober_challenge nebula: Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in #astronomy. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 #histsci Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life & career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, 🧵
My Linocut portrait of Caroline Herschel against a starry sky with comet and 5 inset diagrams of her observations
October 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
artistburns.bsky.social
@spacetober_challenge. Today’s prompt is Nebula. I recreated the Dumbbell Nebula using Adobe Fresco. Not the easiest one I could have picked, but at least I’ve made myself an excellent star field that can be reused as an asset in future digital images. #Spacetober #space #nebula #digitalart #sciart
October 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM