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Potion @potionmusic.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Day 15 #SpacetoberChallenge, This #astronaut watching the sunrise on Kepler-16b is a still from our animated #SciArt music video, Potion: Dark Matter. Derived from poster art from "Visions of the Future" NASA/JPL, dissected and animated. Watch the complete film here: youtu.be/Tlng_7g_2wE?...

The purple silhouette of an astronaut looking out towards the lavender mountains as the double suns of Kepler-16b cast a double shadow of the astronaut’s legs expanding in a triangle shape towards the viewer, across the red, rocky terrain. Overlaying text reads "Choose from three 'Out of this World' options..."

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 15/10/2026

I have been traveling so I haven't had the time to participate in #SpacetoberChallenge this year, but I do have two #SciArt patches releasing this month. Voyager's One Light-Day milestone (with nods to Carl Sagan and the "Pale Blue Dot") and a Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope patch. #nasa

An oval patch, the background is the infamous "pale blue dot suspended in a sun beam" that led to Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. The Voyager probe is zooming away from the inner and outer gas giants. A particle/wave depicts a photon and the patch says "One Light-Day into the Cosmic Ocean", a nother nod to Carl Sagan.

A patch for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telscope. The outer border is the shape of the telescope body with its sunshield. Inside a circle is a depiction of the sensor array of the telescope. Outside are the name of the prime contractors and agencies responsible for the telescope.

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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 9h

#spacetober day 16: Jupiter Europa is the smallest of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter, and the second closet to the planet. Its surface is icy and relatively smooth. Impacting meteorites cause melting of the surface, allowing the water to smooth out before re-freezing. 1/2 #spaceart #sciart

Illustration. The landscape of the icy moon or Jupiter, Europa. Jupiter is in the sky to the right. To the left, a geyser is erupting from the surface of Europa. Behind the geyser, the innermost large Galilean moon, Io, can be seen.

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Avalassanor @avalassanor.bsky.social · 6h

#Spacetober Day 16: #Jupiter, the father of the Roman pantheon, the largest planet in our Solar System, a beautiful death trap. Its superfast winds race in bands in opposite directions, creating those wonderful swirls of colour. I love it gets auroras! 🪐 #pixelart #art #spaceart #sciart

Pixel art of Jupiter against a dark navy sky. The giant planet is striped with cream, white, tan and rusty orange bands full of swirls and small storms, with the Great Red Spot glowing red-orange in the lower left. A bright blue aurora spirals over its north pole at the top. "JUPITER" is written in orange in the top left corner, and it's signed "Avalassanor 2026" in the bottom right corner.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 6h

A throwback for Day 17 of #spacetober_challenge prompt Jupiter: In this 3 colour screenprint, I combined Io, both the nympth (in cow-form) of Ancient Greek myth, and Io the large, volcanous moon of Jupiter. I’m interested in exploring the role of myth & imagination in science, & specifically here,

My screen print’Io, myth and moon.’ To make this screenprint, I combined my pencil drawings of cow/nymph Io with ribbons and flower garlands and cloud with a NASA photograph of Io, which I manipulated. The screenprint is one of an edition of 10, printed in yellow (with a hint of lime), magenta and purple, on white paper, 28 cm (11 inches) square.

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 18h

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 15: Crew/Astronaut Artemis III, Launching in 2027. Taking this opportunity to share some of my day job work. Earlier this year, I had the privilege of creating the art for the announcement of the Artemis Ill Crew for NASA. I love my job. #sciart #spaceart

Graphic showing image of four astronauts in their Orion Crew Survival System suits and helmets from behind. Overlooking Earth from Low Earth Orbit, with the Moon small just above Earth’s limb. At the bottom is the text “NASA’s Artemis III Mission Update”.

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Marsha Loftis @msloftis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We are finished. Washed and dried. #startrek #astronaut #babyquilt

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I’m switching up day 15 & 17, & sharing my ‘Eclipse of Moths’ for #spacetober_challenge prompt ‘moon’. 🧪🐡🔭🦋 The delightful term for a group of moths is an eclipse. This hand-printed lino block print shows 5 of the noctunral moths of Ontario in front of the moon at a lunar eclipse. The 5 moths are:

My linocut print of moon at lunar eclipse in oranges and brown against a very dark sky behind 5 moths: the gorgeous green Luna moth (Actias luna), the yellow and purplish-pink Imperial moth (Eacles imperialis), the Five-spotted Hawk Moth in brown with orange spots (Manduca quinquemaculata), the red-orange, black and cream Virgin Tiger Moth (Apantesis virgo), and the black and white White Underwing (Catocala relicta). In white it reads “An eclipse of” above and “moths” below. I designed the typefaces to suggest the meaning of the words. "Eclipse" is full of crescent moon shapes. "Moths" is written in moth shapes.

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Avalassanor @avalassanor.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

#Spacetober Day 13: #Mars 🔴 Just a little Mars, the planet that always kept our imagination rife with aliens, ancient culture and technology. It may not stare back at us with a face anymore, but it's still our friendliest planetary neighbour. #pixelart #art #spaceart #sciart

Pixel art of the planet Mars as a full disc against dark brown space. Its rusty orange surface is lit from the left and fades into shadow on the right, with dark brown patches across the upper right and lower half, a long dark gash across the middle, a few round volcano-like rings on the left, and pale cream streaks along the left edge. "MARS" is written in dark red in the top left corner, and it's signed "Avalassanor 2026" in the bottom right corner.

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Ray Cassel @ray-cassel.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A Spacesuit is just a very personal spacecraft. #spacetoberchallenge #spacetoberchallenge_06 #spacetober_challenge

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Potion @potionmusic.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Day 14 #SpacetoberChallenge The "Visions of the Future" poster collection from NASA/JPL illustrated a joyful, retro-futuristic view of #SpaceHistory. This still from our animated #SciArt music video, Potion: Dark Matter, shows the "historic sites" on Mars. youtu.be/Tlng_7g_2wE?...

A diagonally split screen with the bottom section in a cream background and text reading “Famous for Historic Sites” and the top half with a fuchsia background revealing abstract artwork reminiscent of mountains and plants and rockets upside down derived from a segment of the “Mars” poster from NASA/JPL.

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Teresa Robeson @teresarobeson.com · 13/10/2026

Thanks to @minouette.bsky.social for mentioning it’s #spacetober_challenge! I have some #drawings that fit the theme. First up is #MaeJemison, #engineer, #physician, #astronaut, Superwoman.

Portrait of astronaut Mae Jemison on a blue background

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

For the #spacetober_challenge day 14 prompt space history, my #linocut of astronomer Elisabeth Koopmann-Hevelius (1647-1693) 🧪🐡🙄🔭 #histsci using a brass sextant to make astronomical observations & some of the new constellations her husband Johannes Hevelius named based on their observations, &

My linocut portrait of Elisabeth Hevelius using a giant sextant on the right side and part of the new constellation named and depicted by Johannes Hevelius based on observations he made with her, featuring the Lynx. The star map is printed in a black vertical stripe. Then there’s a gradient of gold to red, so the sextant is largely gold and she’s mostly in red.

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Ray Cassel @ray-cassel.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Philae Lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014 #spacetoberchallenge #spacetoberchallenge_06 #spacetober_challenge

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Cat @timesnewfishcat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#SpacetoberChallenge day 12: roman space telescope made this for the launch :3 #sciart

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Potion @potionmusic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Day 13 #SpacetoberChallenge, #Mars. Here is a still from our animated #SciArt music video, Potion: Dark Matter. This animated sequence is my interpretation of life on Mars represented in the "Visions of the Future" poster collection from NASA/JPL www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlng...

Film of the Mars rover descending to the planet’s surface as seen through large cut-out letters spelling out the word « MARS » on a red background.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Day 12 #spacetober_challenge is Roman Space Telescope so I made a new portrait of its namesake #astronomer Nancy Grace Roman (1925-2018), NASA’s 1st chief of astronomy throughout the 60s & 70s, who helped shape the space astronomy program. 👩🏼‍🔬🔭🎢🧪🐡 #histsci Nicknamed “mother of Hubble” for her role in

My linocut portrait of astronomer Nancy Grace Roman in a button down shirt, facing left at an angle to the plane of the image, holding a model of the AOSO satellite in her right hand and pointing at it with her left. She has short hair and glasses. Behind her is the night sky with Ursa Major above her head. Both the OAO satellite and Hubble Space Telescope are above her. Her shirt and black vertical stripes and is in a gradient of green to violet from right to left because its a stellar absorption spectrum.

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Ray Cassel @ray-cassel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ingenuity on Mars #spacetoberchallenge #spacetoberchallenge_06 #spacetober_challenge

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Day 13 of #spacetober_challenge by is Mars, so I am sharing my mini #linocut prints of Mars (with its moons Phobos and Deimos). minouette.etsy.com/listing/1313... #sciart #printmaking #spaceArt #Mars

My numbered, signed, titled and dated mini linocut shows Mars in rusty orange, brown and white on a black vertical rectangle with white text reading “Mars” with the symbol for Mars (circle with arrow pointing up and right) . There are two moons in black over the surface of the planet.

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Ray Cassel @ray-cassel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope #spacetoberchallenge #spacetoberchallenge_06 #spacetober_challenge

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 11: Crew or Cargo Spacecraft I chose to go with a crew spacecraft and illustrated the Apollo Command Module. #sciart #spaceart #space

Illustration. Two views of the Apollo command module. Top, shows a view straight on. Bottom, shows a view from above. The two capsule illustrations are over a pattern of repeating lines. The entire illustration is in shades of pink, yellow, orange, and red.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Voyager and Callisto, with our little Pale Blue Dot behind them 🌍 #sciart

Hanging planter featuring Voyager approaching Callisto

Hanging planter featuring Voyager approaching Callisto. Detail of Voyager

Opposite side: hanging planter featuring Pale Blue Dot

Hanging planter featuring Voyager approaching Callisto. Detail of Callisto

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

For #spacetober_challenge day 11 prompt crew or cargo spacecraft, my portrait of mathematician, aeronautical engineer, philanthropist and Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 👩🏻‍🔬🎢🔭🧪🐡 #histsci ⁠ Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead

Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.

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Ray Cassel @ray-cassel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Dreamchaser Spaceplane #spacetoberchallenge #spacetoberchallenge_06 #spacetober_challenge

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Potion @potionmusic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Day 10 #SpacetoberChallenge, #Earth. Here is a still from our animated #SciArt music video, Potion: Dark Matter. Congratulations, Earthling! The animated Earth sequence can be watched here: youtu.be/Tlng_7g_2wE?...

Animated sequence of the back of a couple shadowed in dark brown, admiring the view from a lookout point with a blue and green landscape suggesting mountains, forests, fields, and water, somewhere on planet Earth, the only home that supports our life forms and the home we need to protect from the monied interests that are destroying it. Thank you, NASA climate scientists, for your important work.

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 10: Earth “We will always choose Earth, we will always choose each other.” - Christina Koch These words had such an impact on me when they were first spoken during Artemis Il, and I feel like their depth of meaning has only increased in the months since. #sciart #spaceart

Illustration predominantly composed of typography. The words read “we will always choose earth, we will always choose each other.” And at the center, surrounded by the words is a simplified illustration of Earth. The illustration is in shades of blue and green.

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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 10/10/2026

It's #Spacetober day 10: Earth Illustration of a hand cradling the Earth, perhaps depicting a divine event such as Creation, or else symbolising Earth's fragility, and our responsibility for its degradation. #SciArt #spaceart

Digital illustration, mostly in shades of blue. The planet Earth, glowing, is held within a giant human hand. North and South America are visible.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This #Spacetober_challenge 🧪🐡🔭 day 10 prompt is Earth so I’m sharing my Theia #linocut about the formation of Earth’s moon. This 6 colour hand printed linocut print illustrates the formation of the Earth’s Moon in a comic book influenced pop art style. The favoured model of Moon formation is that

My 6 colour linocut showing collision of Theia (here a large cratered purple sphere, only half of which remains) with the proto-Earth (swirling blue and white sphere) in a comic book Pop Art influenced style. There are zigzagging orange, yellow and white shapes like a comic book explosion at the impact site and projectiles splashing up. Theia is shown moving with wide yellow and blue stripes and the word “BANG!” In red with darkest blue outlines. The bodies are on an extremely dark blue background and in the bottom left corner is a yellow rectangle (or trapezoid) with text “4.5 Billion years ago”.

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 9: Landing The Eagle has landed. Historic words accompanied by an iconic spacecraft, the Lunar Module. I originally designed this for the 2023 Spacetober Challenge, but thought it deserved to see the light of day and be appreciated again. #sciart #spaceart #Apollo11

Illustration of the Apollo lunar module at the center, surrounded by the words “the eagle has landed”. In shades of blue and yellow.

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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 09/10/2026

#Spacetober day 9: landing Animation of SpaceX's reusable rocket Starship landing on the surface of Mars. #SciArt #spaceart #Blender

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Ray Cassel @ray-cassel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Airbag Landing: How we use to land on Mars. #spacetoberchallenge #spacetoberchallenge_06 #spacetober_challenge

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For #Spacetober_challenge 🧪🐡🔭 prompt day 9: landing! 🪂 This is a collaged lino block print with an image of the parachute deployed during the descent of the Mars Perseverance rover as it landed on the planet February 18, 2021. The spacecraft team selected the red and white stripes to encode a

As described this is my slightly stylized collaged lino block print with an image of the parachute deployed during the descent of the Mars Perseverance rover as it landed on the planet February 18, 2021. The spacecraft team selected the red and white stripes to encode a secret message in binary: "DARE MIGHTY THINGS" along with the latitude and longitude of the Jet Propulsion Labs, in Pasadena, California (34°11’58” N 118°10’31” W). The letters and numbers appear in black. This 8" x 8" print is made by hand on lovely Japanese papers.

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Avalassanor @avalassanor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#Spacetober Day 8: #Supernova Part 1, the opening salvo: the gamma-ray burst of GRB 250314A lasted about 10 seconds, but the supernova took months to brighten. My mad plan is to make this into an animation 😀 After an illustration by Leah Hustak (NASA/STScI) #pixelart #sciart #JWST #spaceart

Pixel art of supernova GRB 250314A at the moment of its gamma-ray burst, based on an illustration by NASA and STScI, Leah Hustak. Against dark blue-green-purple space full of stars, a small lumpy blue cloud glows at the centre where the star is exploding. Two thin jets of light shoot out from it in opposite directions, each ending in a bright white-purple blob, one towards the upper left and another towards the lower right.

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Avalassanor @avalassanor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#Spacetober Day 8: #Supernova My first animation ever! A star fires off gamma-ray jets, explodes, and the sky goes quiet again. GRB 250314A, the earliest supernova seen yet, after an illustration by Leah Hustak (NASA/STScI) #pixelart #pixelanimation #JWST From the single frame below:

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A few days late, but better late than never! #SpacetoberChallenge Day 6: Rover Featuring the Perseverance Mars Rover. #sciart #spaceart

Illustration of the perseverance mars rover over a pattern of overlapping lines. The illustration is in shades of orange, pink, and purple.

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⭐ ᗰᗩᖇᛕ ᗩ. ǤᗩᖇᒪIᑕᛕ ⭐ @markgarlick.com · 08/10/2026

It's #Spacetober day 8, supernova. The searing explosion of a Type Ia supernova marks the end of a white dwarf's life. Its companion star, from which it was accreting gas, is ejected in the event. It will forever speed through space like a cosmic pinball. #SciArt #spaceart

Graphic depicts a supernova explosion. Shells of coloured gas - red, green, orange, white - expand outward from the epicentre. Lower right, an orange star is seen speeding away from the blast, kicked out during the event

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For Day 8 #spacetober_challenge prompt supernova: Sophie Brahe (1559 or 1556 -1643) 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools & illustrations of the

My 11” x 14” linocut portrait of Sophie Brahe, a Renaissance aristocrat in headgear, ruff, dark clothing with medallion on a wide band and a long scarf or other thin fabric draped over her shoulders with her hands folded in front of her and alchemical vessels, printed in dark bronze ink, on a bronze background. In green behind her head is a map of the gardens at Uranienborg, with her head at the centre of the diamond shaped pale green knot garden (geometric planned gardens). This is surrounded by an orchard in darker green with semicircle bump outs on each side of the diamond. The stars of Cassiopeia from De stelle nova are printed in gold on top of everything; there are stars across her chest and ruff and in the garden and the large supernova is above her head

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Toziark 🚀🪐 @toziark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

06 - Robotic Explorer Los droides de servicio de la linea S cumplen muchas funciones en la galaxia, todo dependiendo de quien los comisionó. Como por ejemplo los droides de Navegación, Exploración y Rescate. #scifiart #spacetober #digitalart #oc

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