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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐
@stellerarts.com
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🎨 merging art + astrophysics
✨ space-inspired paintings
🔭 planetary science PhD
🪶 bird nerd, gamer, cloud watcher

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · Oct 14
hi #PortfolioDay ✨

I’m Laci, planetary astrophysicist turned full-time artist. I love merging science + art through vibrant space paintings!

website: stellerarts.com
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30x30” oil painting of the Pillars of Creation. There is a partial checkerboard pattern across most of the piece, which weaves together 2 JWST images. The red orange squares are mid-infrared light. The purple blue squares add in near-infrared light bringing thousands of stars into view. Close up of 30x15” oil painting. This section of a star-forming region looks like the skull of a dragon or Leviathan in dark brown set against a lavender background. The background fades into pink and a peachy orange moving from left to right. 24x24” oil painting of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. A vibrant circular-shaped explosion of magenta, orange, lime green, yellow, and light blue against a background of deep teal with peach stars. The painting is based on a composite image of x-ray, visible, and infrared light. At noon, 4 o clock, and 8 o clock are subtle triangles singling each type of light. A 24x24” oil painting of the Ring Nebula. Most of the piece is a vibrant ring of complex details beginning with a blue-green center transitioning into orange, yellow, peach, then red. Outside the ring is a deep blue and black. This is the planetary nebula from JWST in near-infrared light. At 11 o clock is a small hexagon and 5 o clock has a larger hexagon. The hexagons are from another JWST image in mid-infrared light. The colors are inverted in the hexagons and the center area (now in red) has more structure at longer wavelengths.
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It’s just a comet, you dinguses
December 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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It took the full power of my last remaining brain cell today to paint the scoring numbers. Gave the background a first layer, too. Once everything dries I can finish the final details & will paint deez pinballs. 🕹️
Close up of rectangular oil painting of mini pinball game. The background is a dark blue grey. The case is orange with a background with spaceships. There are now scoops for catching the pinballs with the scoring numbers added.
December 19, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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I did not set up my Solar System Christmas tree this year 😕. Just was not feeling it. But if you’re nice to me, I’ll share pictures of it across the years next week!
December 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Mini pinball game update. Today I added the first layer on the scoopy things (idk what they’re called). Tomorrow I’ll add the scoring numbers. Only a few things left + the background. Almost finished! #ArtAdventCalendar
Oil painting of a handheld mini pinball game. The outer case is orange. The background has spaceships. The plastic interior pieces are coming into view. Work in progress.
December 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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1/3 Here is one of several flyovers our digital terrain model group created from a DTM of our 100,000th observation of Mars!
December 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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I showed up to my doctor’s appointment today and everything was gone! Lights off, no furniture, all the doors open. Should have taken a selfie standing in the empty office confused lmao. They moved locations & forgot to tell me. Oops! It all worked out though, did my appt on the phone. silly day 😆
December 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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me: there’s a meteor shower!
husband: where?
me: in the sky
husband: 😑😑😑 no like which direction
December 15, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Okay hear me out. I am a science artist accustomed to providing a description of the physics behind my paintings. Lately, I’ve been painting random space-inspired objects, too. It’s actually been kinda nice not needing to explain my art lol. I can just be like LOOK!
December 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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For #ArtAdventCalendar day 13, one from my 2018 Turbulent Skies Project.

I Can See It…With My Imagination
44x60 112×152cm
Oil on Canvas
2018
Abstract landscape: swirling storm clouds with a wall cloud and rain underneath, yellow field and trees
December 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Reposted by Dr. Laci Brock 🪐
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Late-year academic push nearly over, so ready to get back to making these guys 🛠️
A worker ant and a plant hopper with a prominent nose facing each other, sitting on a white background. The ant is bronze, and the planthopper is bronze with silver eyes and wings. Both cast in my garage, which I’m dying to get back to.
December 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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anyone care for a game of 70s mini pinball?
Work in progress oil painting of a mini pinball game with spaceships in the background. I’m holding the reference mini game next to the painting.
December 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Space artists: don’t forget to submit your work to The Art of Planetary Science exhibition by December 31st! The event is held in Tucson. Anyone can submit—all levels & types of human-made art. I’ll be submitting and attending again. 🐡🔭🧪

More details here: lpl.arizona.edu/art
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December 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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I went to dinner with a friend. Ordered a margarita. The woman asked for my ID. I presented it to her and she audibly gasped. “I knew you were over 21, but you do not look your age!” I will be riding this high for at least a month, thank you kind woman at Calle Tepa restaurant.
December 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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a moment for the reflections & letters 🤌
mini pinball game painting in progress Close up of the reflections in the plastic and letters that say “mini-game pinball”
December 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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From paleoart to fine art,
comics to medical animation,
bioart to space imagery,
explore the rich SciArt ecosystem on Bluesky with the SciArt Starter Pack.

150 artists, plus the entire popular SciArt Feed 🐡 to pin to your skyline.

And no gen AI or NFTs. 🥳
December 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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💫✨ Tarak the Nebula Octopus 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨

#ArtAdventCalendar 🦑🐡
A hand sculpted and painted octopus sculpture painted in a royal blue Nebula theme. With many meticulously painted stars.
December 12, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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pinball game progress 🚀
Mini pinball game on my left hand and an oil painting of the game in progress on a rectangular canvas
December 12, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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just going to record a little clip

*proceeds to block entire camera with my body*
My shoulder blocking a lot of the screen while I’m trying to record myself painting
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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I finally had to give in and upgrade my dying iPhone 12. I need a functioning phone & camera for art business stuff obviously. Put a case on the new phone & WHY do the sides feel like an olympic bobsled?! So slick. This thing is going to fly out of my hands 😅
December 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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OMG! We already sold half of the Mars Rover jewelry pieces!! In the first 15 minutes! 😭😭😭

Can't believe it. So amazing! What a fantastic collaboration with my friend @amyraehill.bsky.social

If you want to grab one of these pieces, check them out here:

sciencesocks.co/collections/...

🧪🐡🎨🔭
Amy Rae Hill x ScienceSocks - Mars rover jewelry
One-of-a-kind ceramic Mars rover jewelry in an unique collaboration with Amy Rae Hill
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December 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Today's the day! Put our heart and soul into these lil guys. Find a Mars friend to wear around your neck today at 12pm PST / 3pm EST

Previews of each:
sciencesocks.co/pages/amy-ra...

#sciart @sciencesocks.bsky.social
Collage of Mars rover jewelry at different stages of the making process. Clay, bisque, unfired glaze, fired glaze showing each pendant with a rover on a red landscape attached to a chain and the sterling silver tag can be seen on the back.
December 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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On a quest to create space art in different materials. This will be a mini pinball game! #ArtAdventCalendar
Rectangular canvas with rectangle-shaped mini pinball game painting in progress. Colors fade from light blue, to green, to dark blue with spaceships. The outer case is orange.
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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10 scientific truths that somehow became unpopular in 2025

Scientific truths exist independently of public opinion.

But when we disbelieve them, we embrace misinformation instead, and that harms more than most of us realize.

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#space #science #physics #misinformation
10 scientific truths that somehow became unpopular in 2025
Scientific truths remain true regardless of belief. These 10, despite contrary claims, remain vitally important as 2025 draws to a close.
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December 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Space-inspired crystal paintings are complete! Are you on team ⭐️ or team 🌙?

#ArtAdventCalendar
10x10” oil painting on easel of a crystal star with pastel yellow background 10x10” oil painting on easel of a crystal half moon with pastel blue background
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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My favorite moon (makes sense as someone who studied planetary atmospheres 😌)
stsci.edu Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 14d
#NASAWebb and Keck teamed up to study Saturn’s moon Titan in 2023. By combining the capabilities of these two telescopes, scientists saw evidence of convection activity among clouds, which seem to rise, in the northern hemisphere: https://bit.ly/3LSHIRM 🔭 🧪
A six-panel graphic with two rows and three columns, showing infrared images of Saturn’s moon Titan. The top row displays images of Titan taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 11, 2023, while the bottom row displays images of Titan taken by the W.M. Keck Observatory on July 14, 2023. In the left column, labeled “Atmosphere and Surface,” Titan is depicted as spheres with blue, white, and light brown areas. The middle and right column shows four images of Titan, each as a red sphere with regions of white generally toward its northern and southern poles. The middle column is labeled “Troposphere” and the right column is labeled “Stratosphere.” Most panels have small white arrows that are pointing toward the northern pole of Titan, where regions of white are located.
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM