Lucy West
@lucyweststudios.bsky.social
Professional artist, amateur astronomer, space geek, science geek, dog mom, rock hound, sailor, hiker, runner. #fineart #spaceart https://www.lucyweststudios.com/
Very interested in the dynamics that caused the streak of light seen in NGC 6000. Lensing? Veritable input much appreciated.
October 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Very interested in the dynamics that caused the streak of light seen in NGC 6000. Lensing? Veritable input much appreciated.
"Taurus and Pleiades Over Scotchman Peaks" / 30" x 20" acrylic on canvas. Constellations Taurus and Pleiades climb above the rugged terrain of Scotchman Peaks. Located in Bonner County, Idaho, this commanding mountain summit rises to over 7,000 feet and is a beloved area to the local population.
April 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"Taurus and Pleiades Over Scotchman Peaks" / 30" x 20" acrylic on canvas. Constellations Taurus and Pleiades climb above the rugged terrain of Scotchman Peaks. Located in Bonner County, Idaho, this commanding mountain summit rises to over 7,000 feet and is a beloved area to the local population.
"Pleiades: Dance of the Seven Sisters" / 8" x 8" acrylic on wood panel. There's something about Pleiades that's always given me a peaceful sensation. In a time filled with turmoil, I find myself focusing on this beautiful little cluster a lot lately.
April 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"Pleiades: Dance of the Seven Sisters" / 8" x 8" acrylic on wood panel. There's something about Pleiades that's always given me a peaceful sensation. In a time filled with turmoil, I find myself focusing on this beautiful little cluster a lot lately.
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A red supergiant star has a truly cosmic case of dusty flatulence and that means it's about to die. And we've obtained pretty detailed images of it despite it being IN ANOTHER GALAXY.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-red-supe...
[Note: image shown here is artwork but a pic's in the link]
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badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-red-supe...
[Note: image shown here is artwork but a pic's in the link]
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A red supergiant’s clock is ticking, and we’re getting a good look before it goes supernova
I won’t cry when WOH G64 explodes, but it IS getting dusty in here
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
November 21, 2024 at 3:40 PM
A red supergiant star has a truly cosmic case of dusty flatulence and that means it's about to die. And we've obtained pretty detailed images of it despite it being IN ANOTHER GALAXY.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-red-supe...
[Note: image shown here is artwork but a pic's in the link]
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badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-red-supe...
[Note: image shown here is artwork but a pic's in the link]
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Methane Super Emitters are now accurately mapped
www.nasa.gov/centers-and-...
www.nasa.gov/centers-and-...
January 26, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Methane Super Emitters are now accurately mapped
www.nasa.gov/centers-and-...
www.nasa.gov/centers-and-...
Oh no! Sad to see Ingenuity will fly no more.
You did good, little Ginny! #Ingenuity #Mars2020
www.yahoo.com/news/history...
You did good, little Ginny! #Ingenuity #Mars2020
www.yahoo.com/news/history...
January 25, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Oh no! Sad to see Ingenuity will fly no more.
You did good, little Ginny! #Ingenuity #Mars2020
www.yahoo.com/news/history...
You did good, little Ginny! #Ingenuity #Mars2020
www.yahoo.com/news/history...
Shoutout to Novaspace Art Gallery! Very happy and honored to see they are featuring limited edition prints of my Alan Bean painting!! I love their post: "A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO A GREAT MAN!"
novaspace.com/shop/space-a...
novaspace.com/shop/space-a...
January 19, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Shoutout to Novaspace Art Gallery! Very happy and honored to see they are featuring limited edition prints of my Alan Bean painting!! I love their post: "A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO A GREAT MAN!"
novaspace.com/shop/space-a...
novaspace.com/shop/space-a...
"Galileo's Moon: The History of Apollo 15" - streaming January 10! film.apollo15hub.org?fbclid=IwAR3...
January 8, 2024 at 7:02 PM
"Galileo's Moon: The History of Apollo 15" - streaming January 10! film.apollo15hub.org?fbclid=IwAR3...
December 13, 2023 at 7:35 PM
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The asteroid Leona will block Betelgeuse in under 2 hours!
Read about it here:
badastronomy.substack.com/p/big-body-b...
And watch live here:
www.virtualtelescope.eu/2023/12/04/t...
Read about it here:
badastronomy.substack.com/p/big-body-b...
And watch live here:
www.virtualtelescope.eu/2023/12/04/t...
Big Body Briefly Blocks Betelgeuse
An asteroid passes directly in front of everyone’s favorite supernova progenitor tonight
badastronomy.substack.com
December 11, 2023 at 11:16 PM
The asteroid Leona will block Betelgeuse in under 2 hours!
Read about it here:
badastronomy.substack.com/p/big-body-b...
And watch live here:
www.virtualtelescope.eu/2023/12/04/t...
Read about it here:
badastronomy.substack.com/p/big-body-b...
And watch live here:
www.virtualtelescope.eu/2023/12/04/t...
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Hey, if you wanna see the sky falling then tonight is a good time to look up: The Leonid meteor shower peak tonight.
And next month the even better Geminids put on a show, too!
Read all about 'em:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/leon...
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And next month the even better Geminids put on a show, too!
Read all about 'em:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/leon...
🧪 🔭
Leonid and Geminid Meteor Showers Bring Bonanza before Year's End
Two unusual annual meteor showers come at the end of the year, and each can spark astonishing celestial fireworks
www.scientificamerican.com
November 17, 2023 at 4:12 PM
Hey, if you wanna see the sky falling then tonight is a good time to look up: The Leonid meteor shower peak tonight.
And next month the even better Geminids put on a show, too!
Read all about 'em:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/leon...
🧪 🔭
And next month the even better Geminids put on a show, too!
Read all about 'em:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/leon...
🧪 🔭
Small Commission: Andromeda Galaxy / 8" x 6" acrylic on wood panel. Very fun commission! If I did not have these celestial beauties to focus on during this era of turbulent global crisis happening just about every where (!), I would probably go crazy. #astronomy #CelestialBliss #KeepLookingUp
November 16, 2023 at 12:35 AM
Small Commission: Andromeda Galaxy / 8" x 6" acrylic on wood panel. Very fun commission! If I did not have these celestial beauties to focus on during this era of turbulent global crisis happening just about every where (!), I would probably go crazy. #astronomy #CelestialBliss #KeepLookingUp
An original photograph of the mysterious figure on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV has been discovered in an old photo album - and he's been identified
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...?
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...?
November 8, 2023 at 3:29 PM
An original photograph of the mysterious figure on the cover of Led Zeppelin IV has been discovered in an old photo album - and he's been identified
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...?
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...?
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Moonmoon? Momoonon? MoonnooM?
Ooh, yeah, I like that last one: The Lucy asteroid mission found a space rock that is orbited by another space rock, except the second space rock is actually two space rocks in contact, just barely kissing each other!
badastronomy.substack.com/p/special-ed...
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Ooh, yeah, I like that last one: The Lucy asteroid mission found a space rock that is orbited by another space rock, except the second space rock is actually two space rocks in contact, just barely kissing each other!
badastronomy.substack.com/p/special-ed...
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SPECIAL EDITION: Lucy sees double: Small asteroid is orbited by a binary moon!
Dinkinesh has a moon, and that moon is two moons touching. Yeah, it’s weird.
badastronomy.substack.com
November 8, 2023 at 3:04 PM
Moonmoon? Momoonon? MoonnooM?
Ooh, yeah, I like that last one: The Lucy asteroid mission found a space rock that is orbited by another space rock, except the second space rock is actually two space rocks in contact, just barely kissing each other!
badastronomy.substack.com/p/special-ed...
🧪 🔭
Ooh, yeah, I like that last one: The Lucy asteroid mission found a space rock that is orbited by another space rock, except the second space rock is actually two space rocks in contact, just barely kissing each other!
badastronomy.substack.com/p/special-ed...
🧪 🔭
November 2, 2023 at 6:29 PM
Did anyone else see the latest JUNO image like this? I can't unsee it.
#Halloween #NASA #JUNO #Jupiter #TwilightZone #TheGremlin
#Halloween #NASA #JUNO #Jupiter #TwilightZone #TheGremlin
November 2, 2023 at 1:07 PM
Did anyone else see the latest JUNO image like this? I can't unsee it.
#Halloween #NASA #JUNO #Jupiter #TwilightZone #TheGremlin
#Halloween #NASA #JUNO #Jupiter #TwilightZone #TheGremlin
"The Longest Night" / acrylic on canvas. (Description posted in this thread)
October 31, 2023 at 5:35 PM
"The Longest Night" / acrylic on canvas. (Description posted in this thread)
"Night Owl" / acrylic on canvas.
Born out of an unfortunate phase of insomnia, this feathered friend kept me company many nights while I painted him.
Born out of an unfortunate phase of insomnia, this feathered friend kept me company many nights while I painted him.
October 27, 2023 at 5:46 PM
"Night Owl" / acrylic on canvas.
Born out of an unfortunate phase of insomnia, this feathered friend kept me company many nights while I painted him.
Born out of an unfortunate phase of insomnia, this feathered friend kept me company many nights while I painted him.
"Waking Wanderer" Comet 67P/ acrylic on wood panel.
October 26, 2023 at 4:49 PM
"Waking Wanderer" Comet 67P/ acrylic on wood panel.
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HR8799 JWST data 👀
the inner disk is detected! and all four planets! what a beautiful dataset, congrats Anthony Boccaletti and team 🪐🔭🧪💫
arxiv.org/abs/2310.13414
the inner disk is detected! and all four planets! what a beautiful dataset, congrats Anthony Boccaletti and team 🪐🔭🧪💫
arxiv.org/abs/2310.13414
October 23, 2023 at 2:47 PM
HR8799 JWST data 👀
the inner disk is detected! and all four planets! what a beautiful dataset, congrats Anthony Boccaletti and team 🪐🔭🧪💫
arxiv.org/abs/2310.13414
the inner disk is detected! and all four planets! what a beautiful dataset, congrats Anthony Boccaletti and team 🪐🔭🧪💫
arxiv.org/abs/2310.13414
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I have thoughts. This time on space exploration.
As we start to explore the Moon we're going to need roads, and some engineers have made very interesting progress on that. But I have to wonder: at what cost? Will we just bring our baggage with us?
Bonues: AMAZING observatory sunrise pic.
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As we start to explore the Moon we're going to need roads, and some engineers have made very interesting progress on that. But I have to wonder: at what cost? Will we just bring our baggage with us?
Bonues: AMAZING observatory sunrise pic.
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Where we’re going, we WILL need roads
Paving the Moon won’t be easy, but it’s possible… but we should be careful how we proceed. Also: Sunrise over an extremely large telescope.
badastronomy.substack.com
October 23, 2023 at 2:21 PM
I have thoughts. This time on space exploration.
As we start to explore the Moon we're going to need roads, and some engineers have made very interesting progress on that. But I have to wonder: at what cost? Will we just bring our baggage with us?
Bonues: AMAZING observatory sunrise pic.
🔭 🧪
As we start to explore the Moon we're going to need roads, and some engineers have made very interesting progress on that. But I have to wonder: at what cost? Will we just bring our baggage with us?
Bonues: AMAZING observatory sunrise pic.
🔭 🧪
Reposted by Lucy West
Cross-eye 3D Stereogram of Io using Juno's Perijove 55 data.
Left two images: Cross-eye
Right two images: Parallel-eye
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Left two images: Cross-eye
Right two images: Parallel-eye
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
October 17, 2023 at 4:05 PM
Cross-eye 3D Stereogram of Io using Juno's Perijove 55 data.
Left two images: Cross-eye
Right two images: Parallel-eye
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Left two images: Cross-eye
Right two images: Parallel-eye
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
My share for todays #SpacetoberChallenge is #NewHorizons.
"January 29, 1930: Discovering Pluto" / acrylic on wood panels. Tribute to Clyde Tombaugh/New Horizons. The star field panel has been hand painted to replicate the photo plate used by Tombaugh when discovering Pluto.
#SciArt #SpaceArt
"January 29, 1930: Discovering Pluto" / acrylic on wood panels. Tribute to Clyde Tombaugh/New Horizons. The star field panel has been hand painted to replicate the photo plate used by Tombaugh when discovering Pluto.
#SciArt #SpaceArt
October 17, 2023 at 5:36 PM
My share for todays #SpacetoberChallenge is #NewHorizons.
"January 29, 1930: Discovering Pluto" / acrylic on wood panels. Tribute to Clyde Tombaugh/New Horizons. The star field panel has been hand painted to replicate the photo plate used by Tombaugh when discovering Pluto.
#SciArt #SpaceArt
"January 29, 1930: Discovering Pluto" / acrylic on wood panels. Tribute to Clyde Tombaugh/New Horizons. The star field panel has been hand painted to replicate the photo plate used by Tombaugh when discovering Pluto.
#SciArt #SpaceArt