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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 29/09/2026

Astronomers theorize that the black hole at the center of Centaurus A influences the region as it feeds and launches powerful outflows. Learn more about the impact of its central black hole with a printable poster of this observation from #NASAWebb: go.nasa.gov/4hwsDlf

A horizontally oriented poster with an image of Centaurus A against a black background. The galaxy is brightest at its center, where a brilliant white and pink glow radiates outward. Wispy, ‘S’-shaped ribbons of pink arc above and below the center of the image. A parallelogram-shaped band of gray and white dust cuts across the middle of the galaxy. The galaxy’s outer edges fade into soft textures that stretch toward the left and right sides of the image. Along the bottom is a series of thin vertical bars ranging from purple at left to blue, green, yellow, orange, and red at right. Bars are separated slightly, with black in between. Bar colors are brightest at the bottom, fading up to black. Brightness varies from bar to bar, giving the array an undulating feel. At upper right is text that reads, “National Aeronautics and Space Administration” and NASA’s blue, white, and red meatball insignia. Title text appears at lower left that says, “James Webb Space Telescope: Centaurus A.”

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 29/09/2026

This is another one of my “trust me bro” paintings lol. It’s going to look weird to you for a while. But let me cook. This piece is about dark skies, pollinators, and the Sonoran desert!

16x20” oil painting on easel. Work in progress of foreground saguaro with background desert landscape and mountains. There are 9 horizontal rectangles in light blue increasing in size as you move to the bottom. The lower rectangles have darker blue paint mapping out/connecting the design

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 27/09/2026

I am in my yard right now planting native wildflowers. All the butterflies are coming down from the tree and swarming around me!

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 27/09/2026

There were 100 butterflies in my tree again today! I also saw a sun dog and had a fun time seeing Avengers Endgame Encore (check out my awesome Storm socks 😎)

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 26/09/2026

So I got invited to attend a Space Gala as a special guest. Awesome! Then I got invited to speak at a physics summit about science education beyond the classroom and my art. Yay! But I had to turn both down because I am chronically ill and awaiting treatment and (eventually) surgery 😭

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Typical Friday walking the dog on the Cosmic Cliffs ✨

Yarn bowl featuring the Cosmic Cliffs of the Carina Nebula with a small dog walking along the lower section as if it's a landscape. His leash leads to the yarn feed.

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 24/09/2026

I am painting the latest JWST image with a fun twist! Science + art FTW. Here’s the first layer

Rectangular painting on easel of a nebula/star-forming region. Part of the piece is taped off in a grid

JWST image of star-forming region with yellow and blue. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Kevin Luhman (PSU), Catarina Alves de Oliveira (ESA), Mahdi Zamani (ESA/Webb)

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 24/09/2026

I got called unemployed twice tonight while playing Marvel Rivals. Guess I’m just too good at hitscan dps. If they only knew 😆

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 23/09/2026

I came up with this awesome idea that includes a new JWST image, my PhD research, and will be relatable to many people. So uhhhh I have to start another painting against my better judgement 🫪. I always work on multiple pieces at once, but when I have too many going my brain kind of explodes lol

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 23/09/2026

A couple years ago I won awards for my paintings at a space art show! 2nd place in fine art & 3rd place for the Mars category. Last year I didn’t win anything. This year I’m going for 1st place 😤🤞

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 22/09/2026

Working on something ambitious yet awesome for a night sky + nature art show! First layer complete—blocking in colors on the saguaro 🌵 and Arizona sunset

16x20” painting on easel. A blooming saguaro is in the foreground with mountains, hills, and a vibrant sky at sunset. There are 9 horizontal rectangles that were taped off, so they are the blue under painting color. The rectangles start at the top of the piece and get larger approaching the bottom

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 21/09/2026

There are 100 butterflies in my tree again! No, I will not stop talking about this. (Sorry I don’t have any painting updates. I’ve been packing orders all weekend, then I go outside and stand by my butterfly tree)

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 20/09/2026

Happy International Observe the Moon Night 🌙

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 19/09/2026

One of the best hummingbird photos I’ve taken! This Anna’s male posed for me while I was watching butterflies in my yard. 🦜

Hummingbird with pink head/gorget sitting on a branch with beak slightly open

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 19/09/2026

So there were even more butterflies in my yard today! Like 80-100. I love nature 😭

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 19/09/2026

Oh my glob, it’s the largest grasshopper I’ve ever seen in my life! Horse lubber grasshopper #Arizona

Large black and yellow grasshopper 3.5” (9cm) long on a wall

Same grasshopper on the ground in some brush

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 18/09/2026

A moth has landed on my window & is watching me pack your orders 🥹

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 18/09/2026

I'm finally so excited to share this! My second PhD paper, and what I've spent the last year working on ... We've discovered not one, BUT TWO, profile change events on the closest and brightest millisecond pulsar (MSP) to Earth! www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/disc... Let's jump ito a 🧵👇 🔭📡

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 18/09/2026

My shop is open to everyone now! There is one mini painting left, some Artemis II mini prints, and Project Hail Mary prints ✨ stellerarts.com/collections/...

4x4” (10x10cm) painting of mallards under the Milky Way sitting on small easel next to mini succulent

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 16/09/2026

Early access emails have gone out! Thanks to everyone who has already ordered 🫶. I am actually in the struggle today & my nose keeps bleeding lol, so I am going to assume amoeba form on the couch. I will start packing orders over the weekend!

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 15/09/2026

#NASARoman activated the Wide Field Instrument—a 300-megapixel infrared camera that will allow it to explore wide swaths of the cosmos quickly. This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the instrument—taken as an initial performance assessment: go.nasa.gov/4rg4qEc

$At the top, a grid of 21 panels shows a series of blue images with tiny neon green and yellow circles. A larger image highlights a section of the grid with circular patterns, and an inset presents a detailed star-like diffraction pattern. The colors consist of blue, green, and yellow.$

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 15/09/2026

Just finished this painting! Light filtering through trees during a solar eclipse casts crescent shadows. This happens because the spaces between leaves functions like a bunch of pinhole cameras. ☀️

11x14” oil painting of a brick wall with orange and yellow crescent shadows. A pigeon is sitting in front of a hole in the wall looking up

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 14/09/2026

there was baby sonoran collared lizard on my porch today 🥹

Small lizard with black and white collar hiding behind a cart wheel

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 13/09/2026

my tiny painting of Erid, Rocky’s home planet from Project Hail Mary 💙 Prints & the original will be available this week! Shop update on Wednesday for email list, next day for the public stellerarts.com/pages/shop

4x4” mini painting on easel of blue ringed planet next to a fake succulent

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 12/09/2026

The more I sit with this (on my phone at least since I'm at the lake) the happier I am with it. Sharpless 162 51×76 cm 20×30″ Oil on canvas 2026 Just listed. There will be no prints. Not shipping to the US. earthskyart.ca/product/shar...

WIP painting of swirling orange red and yellow nebula gas with a blueish bubble in the centre with hundreds of stars.

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 12/09/2026

my painting of a blood Moon (total lunar eclipse)

Clay disk painted like an orange Moon during a lunar eclipse

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 11/09/2026

I turned around and noticed a butterfly had landed on the window. I think it was watching me paint 🥹

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 09/09/2026

Amaze amaze amaze. Tiny paintings for space nerds. Project Hail Mary and Artemis II mini print restock is in one week! stellerarts.com/pages/shop

Mini painting of Rocky in field of dandelions

Mini painting of Erid. A blue planet with rings

4 mini prints of my Project Hail Mary paintings

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 10/09/2026

Hello?? That was so fast! They must have used the transporter. IT IS AMAZING

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 09/09/2026

Amaze amaze amaze. Tiny paintings for space nerds. Project Hail Mary and Artemis II mini print restock is in one week! stellerarts.com/pages/shop

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

✨Workshop announcment! 💫 I'm back for another online workshop with @pocosinarts.bsky.social! If you ever wanted to translate Artemis II images into glaze, this is for you! No skills required, I'll be breaking it down piece by piece. Sign up below! pocosinarts.org/product/glaz...

Image of plate featuring Earthset over Moon landscape.

"Amy Rae Hill
Glazing Space: Artemis II
Earth and Moon
• November 6, 2026 • 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm
• No Skills Required"

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Bring the latest in space exploration to the surface of your ceramics. In this workshop, we will use low-fire glaze on earthenware to paint a plate resembling Earthset on the Moon, as captured in NASA's Artemis Il mission earlier this year. Glaze opacity, layering, mark-making, masking, depth and sgraffito will be demonstrated for a convincing yet stylized depiction of outer space.
These techniques can be adapted to illustrate a number of other celestial objects and landscapes
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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A nice day out on Mars

Angled cup featuring a Martian landscape with an astronaut couple in the foreground waving at Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter in the distance.

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 08/09/2026

Happy Star Trek Day! 🖖 Data is supervising me while I work on my solar eclipse crescent shadow painting

My studio with cardboard data behind my easel with a painting in progress on it of a brick wall, pigeon, and crescent shadows

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 08/09/2026

In the morning I will have to explain to my husband that I spent $150 on this Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlepod baking dish 😆

Screenshot of baking dish that looks like a shuttle pod

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 08/09/2026

I am glad you’re all enjoying my pocket planet paintings! I made & sold them last year. I will make more in the future! Right now I have a bajillion space-themed oil paintings that I need to finish 🫪

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 07/09/2026

Happy Monday! Please enjoy my tiny painting of Neptune

Clay disk painted like Neptune in my hand

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 05/09/2026

Butterfly explosion! There are at least 30 American snout butterflies in this palo verde tree 🤩

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 05/09/2026

Still can’t believe my little Moon painting got so many likes 🫪. If you found me from that post, hi! I have a PhD in planetary astrophysics, but after my postdoc, I went rogue and started my own art business. My paintings are inspired by space & science—sometimes technical, sometimes whimsical. ✨

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 05/09/2026

last one for today, my tiny painting of Jupiter (from Juno data) If you love space, science, and art, you’re in the right place 🤓

Clay disk painted like Jupiter’s southern pole

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 04/09/2026

Oh geez, I did not expect my mini Moon to go viral! So for the rest of today I’ll share more of my mini planet & moon paintings tiny Saturns 🪐 + Hubble OPAL data

4 mini clay Saturns in my hand painted in vibrant colors

4 false color images of Saturn taken by Hubble

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 04/09/2026

Look at my tiny Moon painting! I photographed the Moon with my telescope, then used it as my reference

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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 03/09/2026

painted tiny brick details all day, can’t feel my wrist, but it’s looking SO GOOD

Painting in progress of brick wall, crescent eclipse shadows, and pigeon

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Some shots of the Moon over the Earth's horizon from the International Space Station between August 30th and 31st. flic.kr/p/2syx4Rh flic.kr/p/2syz3FS flic.kr/p/2syHpCX flic.kr/p/2syDcv7

The Moon over the Earth's upper atmosphere.

NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Kevin M. Gill

$The Moon over the Earth's upper atmosphere. The Moon is warping due to atmospheric refraction. NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Kevin M. Gill$ $The Moon over the Earth's upper atmosphere. The Moon is strongly warped due to atmospheric refraction. NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Kevin M. Gill$

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 02/09/2026

Meet Saturn’s decagon, seen in recent images from Hubble. The new 10-sided atmospheric wave at the planet’s southern pole resembles the famous hexagon at the Saturn’s northern pole, but is also distinct: news.stsci.edu/4g9Gm1U

Side-by-side comparison of two views of the gas giant Saturn, labeled “August 29, 2025” at the top left corner. At left is a straight-on view of Saturn, a globe with pale yellow horizontal bands at the equator and orange and pink at the mid-latitudes. Some bands towards the north and south pole have a light blue hue. There are prominent horizontal rings circling at the equator. At right, labeled “Saturn’s south pole,” the south-polar view of Saturn shows concentric bands in its atmosphere, mostly tan and orange, surrounding a dark central region that has a 10-sided outline. A small, dashed circle at the very center of the pole with an “X” inside denotes missing data.

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