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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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uahirise.bsky.social
HiRISE 3D: A Possible Sulfate-Rich Deposit

Learning more about this terrain needs HiRISE stereo DTMs in areas where layers are well-exposed over wide range of elevations, such as this knob in east Candor Chasma.

https://www.uahirise.org/anaglyph/ESP_089741_1730_ESP_089319_1730_RED
#Mars
November 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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nick-stevens.com
I've redone my "Aries across the Moon" clip.

* Wider phase
* More light in the craft
* Slower background movement
* Fill light adjustment
* Legs extend faster
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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justinasvitkus.bsky.social
Another old painting of a habitable moon entering the shadow of its parent planet.
#SciArt #spaceart #astronomy
November 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Two Jovian moons Io and Europa eclipses the sun darkening Jupiter's sky. Volcanic plumes and sulfur halo can be seen around Io and water ice jets are erupting from Europa's crust. Also Jupiter's rings, solar corona and zodiacal light also glows in this darkened sky #SciArt #spaceart #Jupiter
October 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
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 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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iau-wgsn.bsky.social
⚪️ Apdu (γ Tri) — mag 4.0 white, fast-rotating star in #Triangulum.
🌡️ 9,440 K | 2.5 M☉ | 2.25 R☉ | 117 ly | A1Vnn
From ancient Egyptian Apdu (𓅫pd), “the Bird,” now official IAU name.
#Apdu #GammaTrianguli #IAUStarNames #StarEtymology #Triangulum
November 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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nick-stevens.com
Here's a blog post I did a few years ago, on Yuri Gagarin's visit to Moldova, and his opinion of the local wine!

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Yuri Gagarin in Moldova, and more.
Yuri Gagarin's visit on the 500th anniversary of the city's founding.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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apod.shinyakato.dev
🔭 Orion and the Running Man

Image Credit & Copyright: R. Jay Gabany

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Few cosmic vistas can excite the imagination like The Great Nebula in Orion. Visible as a faint, bland celestial smudge to the naked eye, the nearest large star-forming region sprawls across this sharp colourful telescopic image. Designated M42 in the Messier Catalogue, the Orion Nebula's glowing gas and dust surrounds hot, young stars. About 40 light-years across, M42 is at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1,500 light-years away that lies within the same spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy as the Sun. Including dusty bluish reflection nebula NGC 1977, also known as the Running Man nebula at left in the frame, the natal nebulae represent only a small fraction of our galactic neighbourhood's wealth of star-forming material. Within the well-studied stellar nursery, astronomers have also identified what appear to be numerous infant solar systems.
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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rigb.org
💼 Work opportunity

We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Archivist to continue archiving the Ri’s collection and to review, refine, and further develop our archive structure and systems.

Apply here before 24 November: rigb.org/about-us/work-with-us#a7xPy000000hmfhIAA
A woman standing in front of the Faraday laboratory display at the Museum at the Ri, her image reflected multiple times on the panels of glass
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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sciencesocks.bsky.social
🎂 It's #ScienceSocks 6th anniversary! 🥳

Celebrate with me by raising money for #STEM! 🤑

For the next 48h I will donate:

* 20% of sales on sciencesocks.co 👈
* $1 per repost

Get a head start on #holiday shopping 😎

Please like, repost and let's party🕺💃

🔭🐡🧪🎨#bsnm
mars rover socks showing zoomed in view perseverance rover analysing a rock and ingenuity flying above james webb space telescope christmas ornament jwst jewelry set featuring earrings and pendant necklace based on the 18 hexagon primary mirror Curiosity rover wheel pendant necklace in sterling silver being held in hand
November 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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nick-stevens.com
More experiments with the Hitem 3d model generator.

I tried feeding in a small Bruce Pennington skull, and it worked surprisingly well.

First a basic texture and moving light:
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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nick-stevens.com
Wow!
Lightwave development has begun on a Linux version!

Not for the next major release, but targeted for LW '27!
Lightwave logo...
November 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Good morning Bluesky friends! We have started our holiday sale early so you can take your time to shop small this season! 💖

20% off (nearly) everything in the shop will automagically appear in your cart 🛒

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November 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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michaelwhelan.bsky.social
When I saw this smear of paint from a different angle, I imagined the horizontal marks as icy landscape formations from an alien world. 2/3
Gray streaks of paint interrupted by black bubbles that inspired the frozen alien landscape of PERILOUS PLANET. The bottom of the panel is plain white sloping downward. In the upper right, a field of white is pierced by a rocky spire.
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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PERILOUS PLANET (2022)
Acrylic - 7 ½” x 6”

Palette Gremlins are often a matter of perspective. 1/3
Two astronauts in spacesuits and helmets navigate the snowy slope of an alien planet back by an enormous wall of rock riddled with shadowy holes. In the upper right, the rock gives way to a blue sky with a ringed planet looming with a handful of rock chunks in orbit. Long pale purple tentacles tease out from the rock.
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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stellerarts.com
I just found out Spectrum of Storms was NOT selected for a local small works gallery exhibit. Boooooo

Well that’s too bad bc my art is awesome. I squished a storm that is larger than our planet onto an 8x10” canvas using telescope data across ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light.
8x10” oil painting of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in visible light. A purple rectangle on the left shows ultraviolet light, and a red/orange rectangle on the right shows infrared light.
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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sophiecarr.bsky.social
Patterns on the surface of an iceberg. The colour varies due to the reflection of the light in the sky and water behind.

Jökulsárlón #Iceland
Tiny little squiggles of ice run down the surface of a turquoise iceberg (which also looks a little pink in places). Macro/close-up of those squiggles.
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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apod.shinyakato.dev
🔭 Andromeda and Friends

Image Credit & Copyright: Piotr Czerski

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This magnificent extragalactic skyscape looks toward the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest large spiral galaxy to the Milky Way. It also accomplishes a Messier catalog trifecta by including Andromeda, cataloged as Messier 31 (M31), along with Messier 32 (M32), and Messier 110 (M110) in the same telescopic field of view. In this frame, M32 is just left of the Andromeda Galaxy's bright core with M110 below and to the right. M32 and M110 are both elliptical galaxies themselves and satellites of the larger spiral Andromeda. By combining 60 hours of broadband and narrowband image data, the deep telescopic view also reveals tantalizing details of dust lanes, young star clusters, and star-forming regions along Andromeda's spiral arms, and faint, foreground clouds of glowing hydrogen gas. For now, Andromeda and friends are some 2.5 million light-years from our own large spiral Milky Way.
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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nick-stevens.com
I did a new version of the short video, Eagles over 2001 Moonscape.

* Fixed some minor technical issues.
* Better render quality.
* Brightened stars a little
* Lowest Eagle now passes behind foreground rock.
* Music added "Cloudless" by Cousin Silas.
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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royalastrosoc.bsky.social
All our speakers are now on a career panel answering questions from the audience. 🙋
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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contactlight.de
That view from orbit! #Apollo12 paused in Earth orbit before the TLI (translunar injection) burn that sent them to the Moon.
That dark blob is the LM's SLA adapter. November 14, 1969

CONTACTLIGHT.DE
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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ray-cassel.bsky.social
Timelapse of the #northernlights from #Colorado on Tuesday the 11th. I have never seen such a bright colorful light show like this here. It was magical.
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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jayispainting.earthskyart.ca
Biggest sale I've ever had continues.

Still 50% off all paper prints on my website. Shipping in Canada is $25 so buy a couple.

Sorry. No US orders.
jayispainting.earthskyart.ca JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · Oct 15
I'm an Alberta based artist who has a thing for storms & space.

I do commissions & have originals & 50 different canvas & paper prints available earthskyart.ca/shop

#art #painting
Painting of a badlands valley with winding river at the bottom & swirling blue clouds on an orange background sky Painting of a mother ship storm cloud lit from below with swirling clouds above over a butte. Painting of a nebula that looks like a hand with orange yellow clouds and lots of stars on a blue black field Painting of a spiral galaxy with swirls of blue white and red orange arms with clusters of stars and a area of stars in the center
November 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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sciencesocks.bsky.social
It's my birthday and look what my amazing friend @amyraehill.bsky.social made for me. I love it 🤩

One of my first space related childhood memories was watching the #Mars #Pathfinder mission deploy it's airbags and bounce around on Mars. Containing inside the lil Sojourner rover. So cool! 😭😎

🧪🐡🔭🎨
Ceramic mug showing a Martian landscape depicting the Mars Pathfinder mission with deployed airbags bouncing around on Mars Ceramic mug showing a Martian landscape depicting the Mars Pathfinder mission with deployed airbags bouncing around on Mars Ceramic mug showing a Martian landscape depicting the Mars Pathfinder mission with deployed airbags bouncing around on Mars
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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sciencesocks.bsky.social
[On the bench today ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes]

Working on a Curiosity Mars rover wheel pendant in 14K yellow gold. It's so pretty in gold 🥺✨

More info here:
sciencesocks.co/prod...

🧪🐡🔭🎨

Wheel shaped gold pendant pinched between fingers
November 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM