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ionee @ionee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm just now realizing I don't actually have that many images. Mostly videos since I was posting to tiktok before, I'll have to render more. #blender #blender3d #spaceart #space #render

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This week on #RunawaytotheStars: Imagine an 80km rollercoaster ascent, then a cable descends from the sky and yoinks you off the rails. Catch up: runawaytothestars.com Read ahead: patreon.com/jayrockin

A fleet of vehicles depart from the glowing airlock chamber of the recycling plant and head towards the Runaway, which is stationed on the rails outside with a towering delicate-materials hitch attached to the jack sled it sits on, and a construction elevator positioned outside its docking ring. A suited Talita is shown handing off pressurized canisters of luggage from the construction elevator to Gillie and Idrisah, who are standing inside the airlock of the Runaway. Inside the airlock, the sweaty trio take off their helmets and enjoy the cool air blasting from the air pumps. Gillie's hair and Talita's mane are rumpled and wet and flattened from being in the helmets. Talita stretches her arm and jaw as Idrisah signs thanks to her for doing so much heavy lifting. On the wall panel displays, Bip waves to them and prints the word "WELCOME!" The lifting isn't done yet, though, as the trio pack their belongings into the cargo bay. Luggage is held to the floor, walls, and ceiling with thick adjustable straps, then covered with netting. Talita brings in cargo while Gillie and Idrisah tighten straps. Finally, the three follow Bip's directions into a room of the third floor. They point down from the third floor ceiling and print the words "LAUNCH BEDS." They carefully climb down the ladder through the door of the sideways room.

Gillie, Idrisah, and Talita all lie down in cushioned launch beds that are positioned flat against the interior outer wall of the ship, and buckle their seatbelts. Bip's icon lounges on the wall next to them, as if also lying down. The floor of the room (currently a vertical wall at their feet) displays a countdown of 25 minutes and 32 seconds. The launch procedure begins, described in steps: 1. Dispatches on ground rail: the sled with the Runaway travels away from the recycling plant along the outside of the berm wall. 2. Transfers to access rail: the sled switches rails onto a path that takes it around the far edge of the berm, and into the interior loop. 3. Merges onto loop rail: the sled switches tracks onto the looped end of the launch highway. 4. Passes through magnetic bearing housing: the sled rounds the loop track along the inside of the berm and passes through one of the trapezoidal buildings powering the rotors of the launch loop. 5. Approaches loop ascent: the sled heads out straight towards the climb. 6. Ascends launch loop: the sled climbs the 80 km tall rail, the ground beneath it falling away to an inky black sky with stars. Direct message log: Calcery: Hey Talita, I hope you're doing well.

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cageyratfish (UTC-7) 🐟🏳️‍⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Alex is my absolute favourite illustrator of both the Dune universe & Banks' Culture universe 😻😻 I don't think i know another artist whose work looks *this* close to how i've always imagined those worlds when i read the books. Support human artists!

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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

A man and his bunker - the first page of the self-insert framing story I drew for my next book (link to the pre-launch campaign below) I spent an obscene amount of time researching late soviet armored vehicle turrets for that cutaway, hours i will never get back

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Ollie @olliemnjones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Virus

Digital painting of a dimly lit computer lab. All monitors are switched off except for one at the centre showing a small, blank window

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Zeurel @zeurel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Monkey Wrench Ep 6 - Coming October 3rd to Youtube. #monkeywrench #indieanimation

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caffeine anxiety ego death @mxdshipwreck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me this entire week

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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trying their god-damndest to land in a catastrophically depressurized super-habitat (which is still under rotation)

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Evan Maple VO @evanmaplevo.com · 22/09/2026

it’s been said a ton already but I really do appreciate mamdani so throughly dismantling the core democrat ideology of “we actually can’t ever do anything helpful or good because of. circumstances”

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Alex Jay Brady @alexjaybrady.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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The Captain! @decacommand.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

TRIDENT 1 performing cold gas maneuvers in Mars orbit. A quick drawing for the amazing @zanzaverse.bsky.social I did a few months ago and somehow never posted.

Cylindrical spacecraft TRIDENT-1 maneuvers via RCS in low Mars orbit, its dormant Orion drive lit by orange planetshine.

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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the ruins of a more enlightened age

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This week on #RunawaytotheStars: Tragic irony, and epic babies reveal. Catch up: runawaytothestars.com Read ahead: patreon.com/jayrockin

Verengt: Do you know what they think of us? Talita: It's... similar? Your relaxed eyes and lips actually look like an "angry" expression to them. Talita points at her face, relaxing her eyes into a half-lidded position and her lip corners into a droop. The impression is similar to a human glower or displeased frown. Verengt: Is that why you're doing all this with your eyelids⁇ Their trunk curls into a smile, and they mimic the expressions Talita makes with her nictitating membranes, gesturing similarly with a hand. Verengt: I thought you were just very anxious! Talita glances away in embarrassment, rubbing her neck with a hand. Talita: Er... Well… It may be both. Verengt: I've never met another dwaull like you. I look forward to talking more!

Talita's expression falls. Talita: I’m so sorry, I don’t know what Mel told you… But I’m actually… leaving this place. Tonight. Verengt: Ah, so we won’t be working with you? Talita: No… Verengt: A shame! But we would never keep you from traveling. Talita: Is there any way I could contact you from space? I hate to leave you without any help adjusting to the job. Verengt grimaces and reaches underneath the cloak covering their back. Verengt: Partwack… my children are better with alien technology than me…

Verengt: But I do have this… They lift their cloak, briefly revealing the six larvae clinging to their back. They are round and chubby with vertical stripes, and each is chewing on the end of a silk thread produced from a pair of spinnerets emerging where a tail would be on a mammal. Talita looks down at them in delight and wonder. Verengt pulls a phone out of their pocket and drops the cape, peering at the screen with a monocle corded to the phone case. Verengt: If you give me the number of your phone, I can send messages to it. Talita: Oh! Yes! Of course. Verengt pops the monocle into the socket on the back of their phone and hands it to Talita, who enters her phone number on the screen's extremely large text input. She hands it back to Verengt. Talita: If you have any questions at all, contact me. The equipment is designed for humans, so you to have to be creative to get some of it to work.

Verengt: I will send messages to you, Talita. Have a safe migration! They step back to rejoin the three other centaurs, making a downwards gesture with an open palm. The other three repeat the gesture. Talita is slightly confused, but beaming with a returned trunk smile anyways. Talita: ...Yeah! Talita walks with a fleet of autonomously driven trucks full of luggage through the plant, and out towards the main airlock. There, near the same lockers that Talita used to suit up with the temp workers, Idrisah and Gillie are putting on their company-assigned exosuits. Talita: Sorry I'm late. Idrisah: No problem, you're... Ugh! She fumbles the ring of the hip gasket and her pants drop down to her knees, dangling by a fluid cooling linkup. Talita smiles, this time with her mouth. Talita: Need help? Idrisah looks at her, apologetic. Idrisah: Yes please.

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Luna Rose B. @whirligig-girl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

KERBAL WILDS Outer Wilds inspired solar system mod for KSP forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/231785... github.com/WhirligigGir... spacedock.info/mod/4566/Ker... #OuterWilds #KSP #KerbalSpaceProgram #Space #SpaceArt

Cartoon drawing of the solar system from Outer Wilds, but with a slightly more realistic design for each planets. Labels read The Sun, The Hourglass Twins, Timber Hearth, The Attlerock, Brittle Hollow, Hollow's Lantern, Giant's Deep, Dark Bramble, and The Interloper.

Screenshot of KSP showing the orbits of each planet. They are all close to evenly spaced, except for the eccentric cometary orbit of the Interloper.

Screenshot of KSP showing a replica of the ship from Outer Wilds landed on the Ember Twin, with the Ash Twin looming large in the sky.

Screenshot of KSP showing the pole of Giant's Deep, a gas giant with swirling green cloud forms.

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 16/09/2026

A friend found one of my business cards from 13 years ago

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Dogwasp @dogwasp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#SST26 Day 12: Slender/Thin #Spaceshiptember

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Ashley Nichols @ashleynichols.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

With the rise of AI I need to introduce people to "The Test". The test is a game where you search for restaurants and food branding that looks the most old or amateur you can find. Branding that looks like it's over 30 years old, low quality bad lighting jpgs of food or people, comic sans, etc.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

they're going to "scale back" because AI is bottoming out, and then say they did it out of the goodness of their hearts and interest in humankind

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pave+ @paveplus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

no. 11: dropship #sst26 #spaceshiptember

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KASETTETAPE @kasettetape.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"hate drawing the same thing over and over" I seriously need to go back in time and smack myself for getting an animation degree

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This week on #RunawaytotheStars: A tapetum lucidum is a kind of mirror. Catch up: runawaytothestars.com Read ahead: patreon.com/jayrockin

Talita finishes packing the cart in the puddle of light by the apartment building's front entrance, then is startled by a movement to her left. Emerging from the darkness between the two buildings are four large shadows, with 7 eerie eyes flashing the artificial light back towards her. It's Verengt and 3 other centaurs, all barely visible silhouettes. One of them points their trunk to the matriarch and whispers something, causing them to take notice of Talita. Talita looks back at them, apprehensive. Her own pupils reflect the light too, the uneven angle causing one to glow, and the other to mostly remain dark. Verengt walks toward Talita out of the darkness, their body gaining detail as they slowly become illuminated by the door lights.

Verengt approaches Talita, who is hunched fearfully over the cart. Verengt: Talita. Good evening. Talita straightens up and nervously touches her neck. Verengt's trunk points up in a loose curl. Talita: H- hi Verengt! I need to apologize for earlier, I– Verengt: No, we should apologize. I believe we misinterpreted you. Do you speak human language with your face, as well as your trunk? They gesture with an open palm over their own face.

Talita: Oh! …Yes, I do! Verengt: Showing teeth means something very different to them, doesn't it? Talita: Humans pull their lips up and bare their teeth to show they're happy or friendly. She points at her face and pulls her lips back into a quick smile that mostly shows gums. Talita: I've lived with them so long that I do it habitually. Verengt: I see. I usually look for a trunk curl... They lift their trunk upwards in a relaxed curl. Verengt: Do humans not know what this means? Talita returns the curl, with a small closed-lip smile. Talita: No, they usually don’t. Verengt looks off thoughtfully. Verengt: They always seem so unfriendly to me, with their flat nose and teeth flashing as they speak. But I suppose that's just how they're built…

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krismur.bsky.social @krismur.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Day 5 - Drone A remotely-operated arm working around the shadow shield of a nuclear-thermal rocket #lego #space #spacecraft #spaceship #spaceshiptember #spaceshiptember2026 #sst26 #sst2026

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voyager212 / Mac Rebisz @macspace.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

A colorful space corvette with a large support booster. It's also time to finally release my marker illustration node setup for Blender 4.5, works in the 3d viewport with real-time compositing enabled. More info and a link to the free download in thread below. #blender3d #spaceshiptember #SST25

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casi-bev-art.bsky.social @casi-bev-art.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Making Waves A small anticyclone stirs a ten-sided polygon in Saturn's south polar jet stream.

A digital painting of Saturn's southern hemisphere, showing a bluish polygonal system forming around the pole. A small white spot orbits above it. In the distance, a small moon stirs waves in Saturn's rings.

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Staladus @staladus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Some stills from the animation I'm working on (My longest one yet!) #LostSuns

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QuackDuck @quackducks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Day 7: Mining conversion An old mass hauler converted into a refinery station #spaceshiptember #sst26

A refinery station made from a converter hauler. The boxy front of the hauler can be seen on the left side of the station. The engines are removed, and in their place ore refining equipment is placed. 2 long arms support a spinning crew section. On the right side, more equipment and a large, rectangular cargo container area can be seen.

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space_vermin @ thesis burnout @spacevermin64.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I wish I wasn't too busy for spaceshiptember every year

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Scandinavian101 @scandinavian101.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ive started this one long before spaceshiptember, but day 6 nicely lines up with the subject theme, so lets roll with it #Spaceshiptember Day 6: Carrier! - A wing of SVS-250 Hoplite(reporting name "switchblade") fighters, launching from an auxiliary carrier Konrad Adenauer - #SST26

grey, geometrically simple space fighter launching from a carrier. A number of opening and closing doors seen on the hull of the carrier, as well as addiditional fighters seen reversing out of the hangar.

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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Explorers in the world-city of the dead

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Dogwasp @dogwasp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#SST26 Day 5: Probe/Drone #Spaceshiptember

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pochy @pochowek.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

How do you get out of "wanna break my fingers" artblock

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

CANADIANS: RUIN THE FUCK OUT OF THIS ANTI-AI PETITION. this is an OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT PETITION and it needs you to verify an email and that's it. do this right now please. thaaaaanks.

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Dogwasp @dogwasp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#SST26 Day 2: Freighter #Spaceshiptember

A large space freighter with a bright pink drive plume emanating from it's single engine.

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KASETTETAPE @kasettetape.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Dropping my ko-fi here because I need to buy my senior dog his special food, Im just squeaking by this month <__> ko-fi.com/kasettecafe

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 02/09/2026

My favorite movie at age 20 Not only did I love the movie, the DVD had 3 HOURS of amazing animation docos and tons of concept art.

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krismur.bsky.social @krismur.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Day 1 - Fighter Noemi Laporte's Kentauroi-class fighter from "Morrigan in the Sunglare" by Seth Dickinson clarkesworldmagazine.com/dickinson_03... #lego #spaceshiptember2026 #sst26 #spaceship #spacecraft #sethdickinson

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Roya Shahidi | Looking for work @rsdream12.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It’s really important to support Iranian Artists now more than ever. There’s SO many amazing Iranian artists out there and I made a starter pack here to give you a head start. Please give them all any and all kinds of support, we need it! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Dogwasp @dogwasp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#SST26 Day 1: Fighter #Spaceshiptember

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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Navarran man-amplifier, outfitted for an expedition...

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🌾Beau Van Dalen | Author, 30+ Novels 💕 @beauvandalen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

‼️‼️‼️ PLEASE SHARE ‼️‼️‼️ With a group of 30+ artists we want to help Mohammed who's been trying to evacuate with his family for 2 whole years: he's been through so much and hasn't given up please share his campaign, if this reaches the right people he could finally leave!🙏❤️ chuffed.org/project/help...

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Urgent: Help Mohammed's family

Hello friends, I'm Mohammed from Gaza, I'm 23 years old, a university student studying accounting. We endured a two-year war of genocide during which we lost everything. Our house was completely destr...

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Sofa (Advance Comms Open) @sofamods.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One of my longest-standing dreamsheet items has been a sky pirate sandbox lite flightsim about trading and raiding w/ aircraft inspired by 1920s/30s aviation, like flying boats and Schneider Cup racers, maybe taking a page from Miyazaki's Hikoutei Jidai.

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This week on #RunawaytotheStars: Idrisah caves, Tod don't care, the trio prepares for liftoff. Catch up: runawaytothestars.com Read ahead: patreon.com/jayrockin

Idrisah stares up at Talita, surprised by her response. Gillie nudges into Idrisah with a cheeky grin. Gillie: (ASL) I trust them enough to fly us to Nexus Jovia without murdering us in our sleep! Idrisah hunches her shoulders and grips her forehead, grimacing. Gillie: (ASL) If they want to avoid the law, us going missing after boarding their ship would be WAY more suspicious than just dropping us off and leaving! Idrisah: (ASL) BUT— She turns to Gillie, faltering, breaking up in a nervous sweat. Idrisah: (ASL) I— We... We would get charged a cancellation fee on our ferry ship booking... Gillie put her hands on her hips, looking insulted.

Gillie: (ASL) Idrisah, would you rather spend two weeks on a ship with this lovely woman and an AI that's been more considerate to us than our employers... Talita looks surprised, then glances away, cheek feathers fluffing up at the compliment. Gillie: (ASL) Or those obnoxious temps? Idrisah thinks silently, hands on her hips. Idrisah: (ASL) Ok. Alright. Yeah! She turns to Talita conspiratorially. Idrisah: (ASL) What do you need us to do? Talita: (ASL) I'll move your bags out if you two handle food and supplies…

Talita trots up to Tod, who has loaded all her boxes in the back of the truck and and is climbing into the drivers seat. Talita: Tod! Could I borrow a couple more trucks tonight? Tod stares, deadpan. Tod: You roped the Touati-Sharpe couple into coming on your custom ship, huh? Her eyes widen in horror as she watch Tod finishes climbing behind the wheel. Talita: Mel told you?? Tod: Sure did. Her gaze flicks nervously to the side. Talita: Oh. Are… you mad? About me quitting right after 3 other long term employees… Tod leans back comfortably into the driver's seat, one hand on the wheel, utterly unfazed. Tod: Nah. This kinda massive turnover happens every five years here. Though this is the ballsiest exit I’ve seen yet.

Talita stares as Tod backs the vehicle up to turn it around. Tod: Don't blow up in orbit. I'd be sad. A montage of panels show the trio preparing to leave. Idrisah packs food onto a trolley in the community walk-in fridge, assisted by Rasheed. He points out the meat and fish packages while Idrisah counts to herself on her hands. After gathering the food, she hands him a bag full of garlic crickets while making an exaggerated "shush" gesture. Rasheed takes the bag and gives her a thumbs up. The tower lets out a bing bing and the lights begin to shut off as Gillie, Idrisah, and Talita move boxes out of the human apartment building and onto another truck bed. It's now dark in the habitat dome. Gillie and Idrisah follow the autonomous truck out towards the recycling plant, signing to Talita that they will meet her over there. Talita packs the last few straggler items onto a rolling cart, and waves to them.

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Simon Roy @simonroy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

spacesuits from the nation-planet of Navarro

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