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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator
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• Space-focused graphic designer and illustrator
• Sr. Graphic Designer for NASA HQ
• Freelance Mission Patch Designer
• Cancer Survivor
• Opinions are my own

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Ever wonder what #Saturn would look like as a cat? See them all and please follow: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... | #SpaceArt #catArt
January 14, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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Some of the images I created for the book Grand Atlas of the Universe. Written by @startswithabang and designed by William Lidwell. Co-illustrated by Jon Lomberg.

#sciart #astronomy #spaceart
These structures are called stromatolites. They are sedimentary formations created by successive layers of microorganisms such as cyanobacteria. Photosynthesis is starting to change the planet forever. Even today, billions of years later, fossilized remains of these unique ecosystems can be seen across the planet. Illustration of a cave on an icy exoplanet orbiting a distant blue star.
January 14, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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From paleoart to fine art,
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December 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Day 12 of #ArtAdventCalendar

Oops, I blinked and we’re almost halfway through December. Here’s a design from all the way back in 2019 that I shockingly still love. P is for Parker Solar Probe.

#sciart #spaceart #nasa #heliophysics
Simplified illustration of the letter P in shades of red, orange, and white. With a white linear illustration of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft over it. All over a black background.
December 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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The Andromeda Galaxy from last night. 11 December 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
The Andromeda galaxy at centre. Galaxy M110 above. Many star dots.
December 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Day 12 #artAdventCalendar is my #linocut of brilliant trailblazing US #geologist & prof Florence Bascom (1862-1945) 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬⚒️ #histsci who championed women’s education, & used polarizing microscopes for detailed petrographic analysis to show that rocks previously identified as sedimentary were in fact 🧵
My linocut portrait of geologist Florence Bascom as a young woman from neck up, in blue, looking at the viewer with her curly hair pulled back wearing a blouse with large lace collar on green vinyl. Behind her are two geological cross-sections with layers carved with different patterns to indicate different rock materials in black. Below on either side are two circular diagrams: these are thin sections of rhyolite printed in pale beige, brown, and black.
December 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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OK...whew. Mostly caught up.

Here's my Day 2 #ArtAdventCalendar

Tarantula Nebula 30x37in 76x94cm
Oil on Canvas
2023
Based on the JWST image of 30 Doradus #Art #Painting #SciArt
Painting of an abstract space scape of a nebula with a hole in the center showing hundreds of swirling stars.
December 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar 2025

The Artemis II Mission Boarding Pass. I designed this as part of my day job working for NASA. When you sign up to send your name around the Moon with Artemis II, you receive a boarding pass with your name.

Sign up here: go.nasa.gov/artemisnames

#sciart #artemis
Image of the Artemis II boarding pass that you receive if you sign up to send your name around the Moon with Artemis II. The boarding pass is designed in shades of blue. Featuring the Artemis Program logo in white, the Artemis II mission patch, and various information about the mission. As well as the name that signed up, in this case, Morgan Denman.
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Day 2 #artAdventCalendar I made several portraits this year including Sophie Brahe (1559 or 1556 -1643) horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist 🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧪🔭with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools &
My 11” x 14” linocut portrait of Sophie Brahe, a Renaissance aristocrat in headgear, ruff, dark clothing with medallion on a wide band and a long scarf or other thin fabric draped over her shoulders with her hands folded in front of her and alchemical vessels, printed in dark bronze ink, on a bronze background. In green behind her head is a map of the gardens at Uranienborg, with her head at the centre of the diamond shaped pale green knot garden (geometric planned gardens). This is surrounded by an orchard in darker green with semicircle bump outs on each side of the diamond. The stars of Cassiopeia from De stelle nova are printed in gold on top of everything; there are stars across her chest and ruff and in the garden and the large supernova is above her head
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Day 1 of #ArtAdventCalendar 2025

Sharing an illustration of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft I created for Spacetober this year.

#sciart #spaceart #art #illustration
Illustration of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft in orange, yellow and green with a black outline. The illustration is surrounded by a pattern of yellow, green, and orange lines mimicking the outer shape of the spacecraft, expanding outward toward the edge of the graphic. The word “Pioneer” is in the bottom right corner in orange.
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Are You Ready???

#ArtAdventCalendar
#ArtAdventCalendar Guidelines Art can be almost anything. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography, digital. If you think it's art and it beautifies the timeline then post it. No NFTs or Al art please PLEASE USE ALT TEXT It does not matter if you "posted it last year". You don't need to be a "professional" artist. If you make art at any experience level and want to show it off and make others happy, this is the event Art must be original and it must be yours or from a family member with permission. Please don’t post works from other artists, old masters etc Art does NOT have to be seasonal. It can be pretty much any subject, but please keep it family friendly-ish Please don't cross post with just links to other platforms. Most links to other social media sites don't show with images at all and if they do they are usually thumbnails Please do not post prices or use BUY NOW kinds of posts. We are bombarded with hard sell at this time of year and that's not what this is about. This is not meant to be a sales pitch. You can post links to your website if you like Please share posts and follow participating artists. This is both an exercise to build a following of art lovers and to build a supportive community of fellow artists. If you like someone else's work, let them know! As "organizer" I do my best to share all art during the month but if I miss a post, please don't take it as an insult or commentary on your work. There are a lot of posts and I will miss a few. Note that I won't share posts that contain prices or buy now content Post daily or as much as you can with the hashtag #ArtAdvent Calendar There is no specified time to post. It's a worldwide event so time you post isn't that important Don't worry if you miss a day or two. Post even if you only have 1 thing to show off that makes the timeline brighter While the event dates are the 1st to the 24th, feel free to continue to post until the end of the month if you like
November 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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My artwork of a Sunset on Mars. Dust and small particles suspended in the Martian atmosphere scatter light in the direction of the Sun forward. This creates a blue halo around the setting Sun, rendering a Martian landscape quite different from its terrestrial equivalent.

#ArtAdventCalendar
#SciArt
Digital illustration of a barren, rocky Martian landscape. The sun is about to set (or just risen). Unlike on Earth, sunsets and sunrises on Mars can often appear blue, as here. Art copyright Mark A Garlick
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Quote post with your favorite thing you’ve made lately!

#sciart #spaceart #art
An illustrated graphic showing the Gemini capsule (top) and mercury capsule (bottom) in the center section. The capsules are illustrated in the colors orange, pink, white, and red with a black outline. The center section has an orange background. Above the center section is the word “GEMINI” in pink. Below the center section is the word “MERCURY” in red. The background below both the top and bottom word is black.
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 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
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Barn owl, snowy field :)

#sciart #birdart #artist #procreate #illustration
November 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Just an illustrated #Saturn. #spaceArt #sciArt
November 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Please answer our poll. What #spaceexploration poster series should I begin in 2026? Options include a new robotic missions reboot series, funded future missions, current missions en-route, proposed future missions, etc. | #spaceARt #sciArt | LINK: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...
November 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 32 Scale

I made this day up. I posted images of my Planetary Blocks planetary orbits a few days back, but here is also a video that explains the scale/size side.

#sciart #spaceart #artchallenge #planets

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November 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Another successful year of the #SpacetoberChallenge is now complete. Thank you so much to everyone who participated, whether it was for one day or for all of the days. You all are what makes this space art filled month so much fun. 🤩🧡

#sciart #spaceart #artchallenge
Orange gradient background with the words “challenge complete” in large black text at the center
November 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 29 Orbital

I never posted this cause visually it’s not very exciting. But I always like this bit of our planetary block poster that taught about gravity assists and orbits.

#sciart #spaceart #artchallenge #planets

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October 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Halloween Moon. 1925UT 31 October 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
The Moon at waxing gibbous phase on a dark background.
October 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 31: Future

In the not-so-distant future, the second launch of the SLS rocket & the return of humans to lunar orbit for the first time since the end of the Apollo program. Artemis II.

#sciart #spaceart #illustration #art
Illustration of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket at the center, over a stack of evenly spaced pink rectangles, indicating progress. Surrounding the stack of rectangles and the rocket on either side are the words “Space Launch System” right side up on the left side and upside down on the right side, both in bright green. A pattern of three pink and orange rectangles caps off both the top and bottom of the design. The background of the entire thing, behind all the various elements, is black.
November 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Funded yesterday. #NASA #Viking #embroidered mission patch. It was the first to successfully explore the Martian surface… twice. | LINK: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c... | #sciArt #spaceArt
October 31, 2025 at 7:47 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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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 31: Future

Star Trek’s “Phoenix” was Earth’s first crewed warp-capable ship.

A future with an FTL ship launched on the back of an obsolete ICBM leading to an egalitarian society without hunger, exploitation, or material needs would be pretty nice. #Spacetober
A full page view of my drawings to date, with the Phoenix filling the last gap near the middle of the page The drawing has a hand-lettered title near the bottom “Spacetober Challenge 2025” and my signed initials A close-up of the Phoenix
October 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM