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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator
@morgandenman.bsky.social
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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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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
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Wrapping up #SpacetoberChallenge is the topic "Future". I'll probably make this a patch at some point, but for now just the artwork. Boots on Mars in my lifetime? Perhaps. Here's to hoping. Thank you @morgandenman.bsky.social for putting this monthly challenge together.
A classic "Vitruvian" man pose by an astronaut in an Orion crew survival suit displayed over a trarant of Earth, the Moon and Mars.
October 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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#SpacetoberChallenge Epilogue

Here's a proper scan (instead of pics under harsh LEDs) with a wee tweak to balance space's black levels from my uneven brushes/markers.

Had a blast, learned a few new things, and found it strangely relaxing sometimes.

Thanks @morgandenman.bsky.social for the fun!
A scan of the full page of drawings where the blackness of space is more evenly coloured.
October 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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For #spacetober_challenge day 31 prompt future: “Take the Europa Express, your passport to the Galilean Moons!” 🧪🐡 My linocut is a space travel poster for a future where we all share the citizenship of Earth and can take rapid transport to Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, 🧵
As described, my linocut is a space travel poster for a future where we all share the citizenship of Earth and can take rapid transport to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, known as the Galilean Moons (named after Galileo, who first observed them with a telescope. There’s a view of a section of Jupiter with big red spot and its moon Europa. Text reads “Take the Europa Express, your passport to the Galilean Moons.” There’s a hand holding a blue passport with a ticket in it. The passport has a stylized image of Earth with the symbol for Earth and the words “Earth Passport” on it. Each print is burnished by hand onto lovely Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper in a creamy ivory colour, 8" x 10" (or 20.3 cm by 25.4 cm).
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 31: Future

The final day of the month. I actually don’t have much on this except for two details from my Milestones in Space Glasses: #HumansOnMars #LunarGateway

#sciart #spaceart #artchallenge
October 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 31: Future

The final day of the month and the final prompt of this year’s challenge! That really went by fast.

#sciart #spaceart #artchallenge
Orange gradient background with the words “day 31: future” in large black text at the center Graphic showing the Spacetober challenge prompt list for 2025. The background is an orange gradient with a black box on top, with the number of each day and the corresponding prompt for each in white text on top. 1: Launch, 2: Planet(s), 3: Space Weather, 4: Moon, 5: Voyager, 6: Constellation, 7: Space Agency, 8: Propulsion, 9: Nebula, 10: Artemis II, 11: Asteroid, 12: Eclipse, 13: Near or Deep Space Network, 14: Spacecraft, 15: Black Hole, 16: Parachute, 17: Historic Person(s), 18: Mars/Mars Mission, 19: Crew Capsule, 20: Telescope, 21: Star, 22: Lunar Landing, 23: Space Station, 24: Jet/Plane, 25: Historic Mission(s), 26: Earth, 27: Habitat, 28: Astronaut/Cosmonaut, 29: Orbit, and 30: Galaxy are crossed out. 31: Future
October 31, 2025 at 1:32 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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#SpacetoberChallenge #Galaxy

A galactic visitor 🐙✨ Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨

#ArtYear #Art #Artist #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #Astronomy #MarineLife #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
October 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Spiraling like a galaxy 🌀

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 30: Galaxy

#sciart #spaceart #art #illustration
Illustration. At the center is an illustration of a spiral Galaxy in shades of blue and green. Surrounding that are the words “spiraling like a galaxy” in a bold font, white with a bright green outline.
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 30: Galaxy

NGC 4565 (also Caldwell 38 or "The Needle" galaxy) is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 40 million light-years away. #Spacetober
A full page view of my drawings to date, with a galaxy drawn hear the center right A close-up of the galaxy drawing
October 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Nearing the end of the month. Back in October 2023 I was capturing Vega (Alpha Lyrae). 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
Blue star Vega at centre. Many other star dots on a dark background.
October 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 30 Galaxy

The main #DrakeEquation design created for @setiinstitute.bsky.social

#sciart #spaceart #artchallenge
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 29 - Orbit
An exoplanet orbiting very close to its companion star.
October 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM