Shirley Ceravolo
@shirleyceravolo.bsky.social
making artistic inquiries into astrophysical concepts, from micro to macro
https://linktr.ee/shirleyceravolo
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For my recent work, Avatar Amber Inclusion, I created insect wings for my Second Life avatar, MultiverseTraverser1. They are based off a scientific illustration of prehistoric dustywing insects, which are often found in pieces of amber. 🧚♀️
September 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
For my recent work, Avatar Amber Inclusion, I created insect wings for my Second Life avatar, MultiverseTraverser1. They are based off a scientific illustration of prehistoric dustywing insects, which are often found in pieces of amber. 🧚♀️
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I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist
September 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist
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You’ve probably heard that if you scream in space, no one will hear a thing. Total silence? Not really. Space is a vacuum, but it’s not completely quiet.
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September 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
You’ve probably heard that if you scream in space, no one will hear a thing. Total silence? Not really. Space is a vacuum, but it’s not completely quiet.
buff.ly/9gNEBgZ
buff.ly/9gNEBgZ
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Spot the tiny scientific “puzzle pieces” in the Flame Nebula! In 2023, scientists used #NASAWebb’s infrared instruments to find several low-mass objects to better understand the lowest mass limit of brown dwarfs or “failed stars.” Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. 🔭 🧪
September 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Spot the tiny scientific “puzzle pieces” in the Flame Nebula! In 2023, scientists used #NASAWebb’s infrared instruments to find several low-mass objects to better understand the lowest mass limit of brown dwarfs or “failed stars.” Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. 🔭 🧪
Deep Time & Cosmic Time 🪨 🌌 Using the terrain of virtual land in Second Life, I juxtaposed the 2006 Hubble Ultra Deep Field with a default rocky terrain texture. I love how it turned out and I look forward to expanding on these sketches.
September 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Deep Time & Cosmic Time 🪨 🌌 Using the terrain of virtual land in Second Life, I juxtaposed the 2006 Hubble Ultra Deep Field with a default rocky terrain texture. I love how it turned out and I look forward to expanding on these sketches.
Avatar Amber Inclusion, 2025. #artandscience
September 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Avatar Amber Inclusion, 2025. #artandscience
Ready to render! 🤩
August 31, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Ready to render! 🤩
Revised & updated prehistoric Coniopterygidae (dustywing) wings. For this piece I’m stepping out of cosmology/astrophysics & into paleoentomology—a branch of entomology dealing with fossilized insects. Saving the rest for later, I’ll finish by saying my interest in 'time immemorial' led me here.
July 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Revised & updated prehistoric Coniopterygidae (dustywing) wings. For this piece I’m stepping out of cosmology/astrophysics & into paleoentomology—a branch of entomology dealing with fossilized insects. Saving the rest for later, I’ll finish by saying my interest in 'time immemorial' led me here.
The WIP is finally WIP-ing. I successfully made my avatar some prehistoric dustywing wings for an artwork I am working on.
July 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The WIP is finally WIP-ing. I successfully made my avatar some prehistoric dustywing wings for an artwork I am working on.
I recently finished a needle lace sample of an image from 'A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism' by James Clerk Maxwell. I wasn’t sure how it would turn out—the design is complex & I am a lace novice. It’s not perfect, but I really love it. #astrofibres #lacemaking #needlelace #textileart #sciart
June 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I recently finished a needle lace sample of an image from 'A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism' by James Clerk Maxwell. I wasn’t sure how it would turn out—the design is complex & I am a lace novice. It’s not perfect, but I really love it. #astrofibres #lacemaking #needlelace #textileart #sciart
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We’re creating a massive, 3200-megapixel group photo…and it won’t be complete without YOU!
NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera — the largest camera in the world — began on-sky engineering tests this month. So let’s celebrate! 🔭🧪
Join by May 14: rubinobservatory.org/explore/acti...
NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera — the largest camera in the world — began on-sky engineering tests this month. So let’s celebrate! 🔭🧪
Join by May 14: rubinobservatory.org/explore/acti...
April 30, 2025 at 9:45 PM
We’re creating a massive, 3200-megapixel group photo…and it won’t be complete without YOU!
NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera — the largest camera in the world — began on-sky engineering tests this month. So let’s celebrate! 🔭🧪
Join by May 14: rubinobservatory.org/explore/acti...
NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera — the largest camera in the world — began on-sky engineering tests this month. So let’s celebrate! 🔭🧪
Join by May 14: rubinobservatory.org/explore/acti...
my source of happiness is noticing the small things in life, like the way glass distorts its surroundings via refraction. 😌
May 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
my source of happiness is noticing the small things in life, like the way glass distorts its surroundings via refraction. 😌
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Israel just bombed a civilian aid ship in international waters.
The Freedom Flotilla was carrying food and medicine to starving Palestinians in Gaza.
This is state terrorism — and Canada’s silence is complicity.
End the blockade. Sanction Israel. Free Palestine.
#Gaza #FreedomFlotilla #cdnpoli
The Freedom Flotilla was carrying food and medicine to starving Palestinians in Gaza.
This is state terrorism — and Canada’s silence is complicity.
End the blockade. Sanction Israel. Free Palestine.
#Gaza #FreedomFlotilla #cdnpoli
May 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Israel just bombed a civilian aid ship in international waters.
The Freedom Flotilla was carrying food and medicine to starving Palestinians in Gaza.
This is state terrorism — and Canada’s silence is complicity.
End the blockade. Sanction Israel. Free Palestine.
#Gaza #FreedomFlotilla #cdnpoli
The Freedom Flotilla was carrying food and medicine to starving Palestinians in Gaza.
This is state terrorism — and Canada’s silence is complicity.
End the blockade. Sanction Israel. Free Palestine.
#Gaza #FreedomFlotilla #cdnpoli
I’m so glad my Mom never let me read or watch Harry Potter as a child. Her reasoning was purely religious, but I am still glad we never put money into J.K. Rowling and never will!
April 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I’m so glad my Mom never let me read or watch Harry Potter as a child. Her reasoning was purely religious, but I am still glad we never put money into J.K. Rowling and never will!
Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing. #poetry #aplacelikethis 🌌
April 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing. #poetry #aplacelikethis 🌌
golden hour in my room ✨
March 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
golden hour in my room ✨
sky selfies we are so back
March 21, 2025 at 12:43 AM
sky selfies we are so back
Tell Mark Carney to cancel the F35 fighter jet contract. actionnetwork.org/letters/canc...
Cancel the F35 fighter jet contract. Canada shouldn’t spend billions on US made and controlled weapons systems
Amidst Trump's economic siege and annexation threats, it is unacceptable Canada is paying a
US military giant $19 billion for 88 F-35s. Lockheed Martin’s fighter jet was chosen in part so the Canadian...
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March 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Tell Mark Carney to cancel the F35 fighter jet contract. actionnetwork.org/letters/canc...