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@brucedraws.bsky.social

Always feels good when art directors approve a bunch of sketches to go forward. Five just in the last couple days! *whew* Illustration is (mostly) unrelated to post, but a different sort of victory in figuring out how to quickly create planets in Blender.

January 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

another small cleanse before i go to bed 🌌

A spiral galaxy. It has a bright core with light spilling out. Its disk holds thick clumps of dark reddish dust, which swirls around the galaxy following its rotation. Brighter and hotter stars, shown in blue, speckle parts of the disk. A halo of faint gas wraps around the galaxy, extending beyond the edges of the image.

$A small grouping of large stars shines brightly with diffraction spikes, against a background full of smaller stars, glowing reddish and blue gas, and dark dust.$ $A bright star with four diffraction spikes shines at the center of the image, surrounded by a dark blue ring of gas and dust. Other stars fill the image, all against black space.$ Intricate clouds of gas and dust fill the image. Dark brown dust is concentrated on the left side of the image, along with the lower portions of the rest of the view. Glowing green and blue gas fills the rest of the image, with pink stars visible throughout.

Intricate clouds of gas and dust fill the image. Dark brown dust is concentrated on the left side of the image, along with the lower portions of the rest of the view. Glowing green and blue gas fills the rest of the image, with pink stars visible throughout.

January 10, 2025 at 3:17 AM

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Jonathan Slater

@jonathanslater.bsky.social

Snoopy knows

January 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM

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Jwst Feed

@jwstfeed.bsky.social

High resolution image of a heavy star.
🔭 🧪

$The luminous, hot star Wolf-Rayet 124 (WR 124) is prominent at the centre of the James Webb Space Telescope’s composite image combining near-infrared and mid-infrared wavelengths of light. The star displays the characteristic diffraction spikes of Webb’s Near-infrared Camera (NIRCam), caused by the physical structure of the telescope itself. NIRCam effectively balances the brightness of the star with the fainter gas and dust surrounding it, while Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nebula’s structure. Background stars and galaxies populate the field of view and peek through the nebula of gas and dust that has been ejected from the ageing massive star. A history of the star’s past episodes of mass loss can be read in the nebula’s structure. Rather than smooth shells, the nebula is formed from random, asymmetric ejections. Bright clumps of gas and dust appear like tadpoles swimming toward the star, their tails streaming out behind them, blown back by the stellar wind.$

January 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM

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J. L. Westover

@mrlovenstein.bsky.social

KNOW your role, K

January 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM

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Liam | Landscape Photography

@shotsbyliam.bsky.social

Fog fills a snow-dusted Yosemite valley after the sun goes down

#yosemite #nationalpark #landscapephotography #naturephotography

January 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM

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J. L. Westover

@mrlovenstein.bsky.social

Doctored. Animation by @deathbulge.bsky.social

January 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM

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ᴄ ꜱᴛᴜᴀʀᴛ ʜᴀʀᴅᴡɪᴄᴋ🛸

@cstuarthardwick.com

January 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM

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Wyld Art Photography

@wyldartphotos.bsky.social

Hey all, my last post wasnt the prettiest, lol.
Will finish the day with this #Fox kit. Taking in the morning sun:) Many thanks for the likes reposts comments and follows🙏🙏
#foxoftheday #wildlifephotography #blueskynature #naturephotography #naturesbeauty #photohour #summervibes