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🔭 Astrophysics Ph.D 🍩 Illustration and animation in Blender 🪐 Space art and astronomical art specialist ✨ Fellow of International Association of Astronomical Artists 🦕 Dabbling in paleoart and scifi art 🚫 Porn/AI/NFT/MAGA = Block 🌐 linktr.ee/spaceboffin

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 7h
Cool artistic visualization, and a good discussion in the comments below
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 28/09/2026
More fun with my orbital space hotel. Made in #blender. FUN only. Not a serious concept. The barrel-shaped pods are the living quarters. They're detachable in case of damage to the underlying ring. (Although, not sure how much help that will be!) #sciart #spaceart #scifi
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 25/09/2026
Interior render of my space hotel scene, created in #Blender. All my own work except the character. #sciart #scicom #scifi
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col price @coldesign.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Its that time again folks. Just finished a gig. So its back to knocking on doors. If you need a experienced concept designer/ illustrator drop me a line. Film ,Tv, games i dont mind. #conceptdesign , #conceptartist #conceptart #productionart #keyframeart #conceptsforvfx
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GrahamTG @grahamtg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Still buzzing from what the previous satellite image taught me about lighting and surfacing. Time to revisit one of my favourite models, the Heliogyro probe, masterfully built and rigged by @nick-stevens.com . These are older renders ; the #Lightwave3d 2026 version is a project for another day.
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Element115Art @element115.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Renders of Apollo Missions: 5, 9, any mission's Loss of Signal, 13 (Renders made with Blender, Earth background in 5 and 9 from NASA public domain)
An Apollo LM floats in Earth orbitAn Apollo CSM and LM separated and in Earth orbit.An Apollo CSM/ LM stack slipping behind the moon.Apollo 13, the full stack plus a bunch of debris around it following the explosion.
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Kvacm Art | Michal Kváč @kvacm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
WIP - Traveler redraw from 2017 #fantasy #painting #art #illustration
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Future Timeline @futuretimeline.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
DeepMind maps 9 billion possible human DNA mutations 🧬 AlphaGenome Atlas has used AI to predict the molecular effects of every possible single-letter change in the human genome, creating a powerful new resource for genetics and medicine. www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2026/09... #DeepMind #AI #DNA
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DeepMind maps 9 billion possible human DNA mutations
AlphaGenome Atlas has used AI to predict the molecular effects of every possible single-letter change in the human genome, creating a powerful new resource for genetics and medicine.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Goddess Queen is nearly here! Click here to order - and for tickets to book-signing events in Bath, York and London NEXT WEEK! linktr.ee/thegoddessqu... And check out the full video on instagram…
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
41 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming.
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SkyCalPro | Kev @skycalpro.com · 30/08/2026
Titan Seas Reflect Sunlight Saturn's moon Titan has numerous smooth lakes of methane that, when the angle is right, reflect sunlight as if they were mirrors. #Astronomy
Titan Seas Reflect Sunlight
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 28/08/2026
If we ever do colonise Mars, robots will likely come with us. Structures like those here are unlikely to be permanent habitats, as they are exposed to radiation due to Mars planet lacking a magnetic field. In the longer term, underground facilities provide better shielding. #sciart #blender #scifi
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 26/08/2026
Animation of a robot high above the Earth on a structure attached to an orbital ring. #SciArt #spaceart #Blender #3Danimation
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col price @coldesign.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Back in 2023 i did some pitch work gor Supergirl. we based ours straight on the comic. Reimagining the panels into real life.Loved doing the crazy colours . Id love to do a movie that was this vibrant! #conceptart #conceptartist #supergirl #productionart #supergirlwomanoftomorrow
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 22/08/2026
@bsky.app Why oh why is it that when I look at videos in the app, enlarge them and then rotate my phone to see them full screen, they immediately stop playing and disappear? For as long as I've been using it. Fix please.
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Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 22/08/2026
vimeo.com/1220406736?s... Updated Uranus flyby, all by me, no AI Still needs a bit more work. I like the way the rings naturally become visible, but the relative brightness of the rings needs fixing. I'm happy with the level of subtle detail on Uranus, but I need to desaturate the colours a bit.
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Flyby of Uranus
This is coming together, but still needs a bit more work. I like the way the rings naturally become visible as you get close, but the relative brightness of the rings needs fixing. I'm also happy with...
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 20/08/2026
I've been working on an animation of a space hotel now for a couple of years on and off. I've already posted a few renders, but here are some new shots of the interior of one of the rooms. This is ART not a serious design. There wouldn't be big windows (if any). #blender #sciart #spaceart
Interior of a room in a space hotel. White, green and teal furnishings. Large picture windows with the Earth visible through them. (Not realistic - just for fun.) A woman speaking on the phone in the bedroom part at the rear.Interior of a room in a space hotel. White, green and teal furnishings. Large picture windows with the Earth visible through them. (Not realistic - just for fun.) A woman speaking on the phone in the bedroom part at the rear.
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 19/08/2026
As robots become more and more lifelike and sophisticated, and more and more intelligent, might humans one day form romantic relationships with them? NOT made with AI. #SciArt #spaceart #Blender3d
Illustration. We see a young woman in  a beige skirt and yellow top from behind. In front of her is a robot. She is caressing its face, while it holds her tenderly. The background is grassy and sunny.
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 18/08/2026
You too could have your photo taken on Mars by a robot! Definitely one day. 😎 Well, probably one day. 😀 Well, maybe. 😐 Perhaps. ☹️ (I doubt it.) 😫 Moon sizes massively exaggerated, before some geek pulls me up on it! NOT MADE WITH AI! #blender #sciart #spaceart
This scene shows a Martian landscape, rocky and bare. An astronaut is standing on Mars. To the left, there is a close up of a robot hand holding a cell phone, taking a photo of the astronaut. In the sky are the two Martian moons, their sizes exaggerated.
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 18/08/2026
Animation of ice plumes erupting from Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of Saturn. Enceladus is an icy moon. In its south polar region, huge jets of water ice particles erupt into space from ridges in its icy crust. #SciArt #spaceart #3Danimation #3dsmax
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Vicky Paints Space @vickypaintsspace.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I do also fully believe my Dad had a hand in all of this, I didn't know the name of the piece until after I'd secured it. Spirit of the Stars. He always told me lost loved ones were the brightest stars in the night sky, and I talk to him in the stars.🥹
My painting "Spirit of the Stars".
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 15/08/2026
Animated 3D map of the closest stars to our Solar System (centre). The Earth's equatorial plane is the horizontal plane, and the blue shells mark five light-years, with the outermost shell being 20 light-years from the Sun. #SciArt #spaceart #3Danimation
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 14/08/2026
Hi, folks. Here's an old but favourite animation I did in 2013 depicting the Earth-Moon system in infancy. This is shortly after a Mars-sized body ('Theia') hit the proto-Earth. The Earth reformed, and the Moon coalesced out of the rest of the debris. #SciArt #3Danimation #3dsmax
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 10/08/2026
Gorgeous work here
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Christopher Berry @cplberry.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Good leadership on display here
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 04/08/2026
Realism in #Blender
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Óscar Díaz @oscardiaz.eu · 03/08/2026
If you see this, repost your getaway vehicle.
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 03/08/2026
#Blender animation depicting Mars 4100-3700 million years ago. The period is characterised by high rates of meteorite impacts, volcanism and possibly abundant surface water — however, the water is thought to have been localized rather than spanning the planet in oceans, as on Earth.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/08/2026
The 30 July 2026 Astronomy Picture of the Day featured a remarkable shot of the Sun photographed through a wildfire smoke-filled sky that turned the star a deep red. So I tweaked it to look like we're orbiting an M-class red dwarf star with a close-in system of rocky planets, like TRAPPIST-1.
A blood-red star seen through thick clouds. Added to the original image is a transiting planet at upper left of the Sun's disk, and the illuminated crescent of a closer planet that occludes the lower right of the Sun.
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 28/07/2026
Life can feel like you're in a gutter. But there are many wonders, if you choose to seek them out. #SciArt #spaceart
A woman sits gazing upwards, in silhouette. The sky is full of celestial objects, such as galaxies, nebulae and planets. Text reads "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars", a quote from Lady Windermere's Fan, by Oscar Wilde.
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 28/07/2026
Talented young lady.
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 28/07/2026
Worth a read
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 27/07/2026
Pretty happy with this robot I made in #Blender. Here's a rigged version with a walk cycle added. #sciart #scifi
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 24/07/2026
Will #AI ever think for itself, unprompted, like a sentient being? I don't know. But here's an illustration I just completed. Modelled, textured and rendered in #Blender. Minor post edits in Photoshop. An homage to Auguste Rodin's Le Penseur. NOT MADE WITH AI #sciart
Digital NON-AI illustration ABOUT AI. Based on the sculpture The Thinker be Auguste Rodin. It shows a humanoid robot, made of bronze, sitting on a stone with its head resting on its right hand, in a thinking pose.
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 24/07/2026
Here are some of my non-digital #SciArt paintings. I don't do this stuff anymore. Maybe I should. 1. Flight of the Eagle. Pastel and acrylics 2. Global Mortification. Oil pastels 3. Beyond Magritte's Door. Acrylic 4. Aurora Planet. Acrylic. Please reskeet
Illustration. The Eagle lunar module is seen in orbit above the moon. The background is a sea of craters. The Grim Reaper opens his cloak. Inside is the universe including the earth and a nebula in the shape of a skullRocky Landscape. In the sky are two spotty stars and aurorae
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 21/07/2026
Last week it was looking close to done. I painted over much of that today. I think this approach will give it much more depth.
WIP painting of swirling orange red and yellow nebula gas with a blueish bubble in the centre
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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Mars as imagined just before the landing. This painting, one of a trio done for NASA HQ, ended up being used for the JPL landing press badge. What a thing that was to see when I arrived and signed in!
 This painting was, as is much of Astronomical/Space art, a summary of what was known of the subject as well as what about it I found visually appealing. Low gravel bar ridges and dunes dominate the scene, based on the original landing site chosen in Chryse Planita. A suggestion of sedimentary layering is shown in the lower right foreground knoll. The sky was portrayed as blue, making the assumption that it would be like a Stratospheric altitude Earthly sky. Earth is the daylight star just to the left of the lander. The aeroshell on it's parachute from which the lander was dropped drifts downwind in the distance to the left.
 The reference materials I had available then were a step or two short of how the lander actually appeared, with the biggest difference being the lack of the rubbery fabric covers over the propellent tanks. 

  #SciartThe press badge issued to media at the JPL press area. The last appearance of the Mars of old based on imagination and educated guesswork. This badge is now among my treasured trophies.
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Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 19/07/2026
My take on the entire launcher family based around the Energia rocket, and its boosters. Some of these are more than a bit speculative.
Energia launch family, Vulkan based, Energia-M, Energia, Zenit based rockets. The Zenit itself is based on the Energia boosters.
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 15/07/2026
Hi! I'm Mark, a former astrononer now a full-time illustrator and animator. I do mostly space-related work. Welcome, new followers! Mostly created with #Blender. 🚫 AI #SciArt #spaceart #scifi
Ancient Mars in the background, with seas. In the foreground is a former moon, disintegrating. Digital illustration the interior of a Stanford Torus during a simulation of night. This is a donut-shaped space colony A futuristic hotel room with a large picture window. The limb of the Earth is seen through it. A woman, speaking on a phone, stands taking in the viewThe Galileo probe is seen against the backdrop of the swirling cloud tops of the planet Jupiter
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 15/07/2026
More shots
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 15/07/2026
New WIP of a humanoid robot, created in #blender. #sciart #scifi
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 16/07/2026
Some of my #scifi illustration. 1. Man on Mars (2019) 2. Transit City (2006) 3. Chasm (2014) 4. Global Warning (2016) These were made long ago with #3dsmax (and #Photoshop) , before I defected to #Blender. Please reskeet!
Digital illustration. A figure in a space suit stands with their back to us on the surface of Mars. A rocket on a launch pad is in the distance Digital illustration. A view overlooking an alien city from high up, predominantly purple and pink. In the foreground is a grassy cliff with three figures on it. Digital illustration. An alien world of chasms. Strange organic-looking structures populate the scene.
Digital illustration. A post-apocalyptic scene. A rocky shoreline. In the middle distance stands a leaning, decayed Big Ben. A sunken city is in the distance
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I don’t like AI. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere.
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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Production illustrations by Ron Miller for David Lynch’s Dune.
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Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 16/07/2026
vimeo.com/1210405926?s... Alien sunrise over ocean. All by me, all in #Lightwave3d
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Alien sunrise and transit over an ocean.
This was an idea I had that was very quick to try!
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 15/07/2026
New WIP of a humanoid robot, created in #blender. #sciart #scifi
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 15/07/2026
Hi! I'm Mark, a former astrononer now a full-time illustrator and animator. I do mostly space-related work. Welcome, new followers! Mostly created with #Blender. 🚫 AI #SciArt #spaceart #scifi
Ancient Mars in the background, with seas. In the foreground is a former moon, disintegrating. Digital illustration the interior of a Stanford Torus during a simulation of night. This is a donut-shaped space colony A futuristic hotel room with a large picture window. The limb of the Earth is seen through it. A woman, speaking on a phone, stands taking in the viewThe Galileo probe is seen against the backdrop of the swirling cloud tops of the planet Jupiter
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 14/07/2026
Pretty much
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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 12/07/2026
I'd like to propose a new candidate for Clacton: Lim Bim Lim Bim Wim P'tang P'tang Olé Biscuit Barel. If they (gender undetermined) were to stand, I'd move to this arse hole of British society just to vote for them.
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 03/07/2026
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M58: The First Spiral – Original
82x92cm 32.25×36.25in Oil on canvas 2026 Based on a near & mid infrared image of the galaxy M58 taken by JWST One of the first 4 spiral galaxies ever discovered, it’s a barred spiral…
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