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2026 April 16

South Celestial Tree
* Image Credit & Copyright: Kiko Fairbairn
https://app.astrobin.com/u/kiko.fairbairn?i=362508
* Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sci/bio/cecilia.chirenti

Explanation:
If you live in the northern hemisphere, you may have learned how to locate the North Star, Polaris, in the night sky. It can be used to find north, and it approximately marks the northern celestial pole. If you live in the southern hemisphere, there is no bright star marking the southern celestial pole, but the Southern Cross can be used to find south. The featured image was taken in Padre Bernardo (GO), Brazil. It shows the apparent motion of the stars around the apparently empty southern celestial pole over 2 hours, on August 20, 2018. Each star takes about 24 hours to make a complete turn around the pole in the sky. Padre Bernardo is located in the Cerrado region, a tropical savanna that occupies most of central Brazil and supports rich biodiversity. The dry branch that apparently supports this sky wheel of rotating stars is a common sight there in the dry season during the southern winter.
https://www.timeanddate.com/geography/southern-northern-hemisphere.html
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/what-is-the-north-star-and-how-do-you-find-it/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250114.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220728.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padre_Bernardo
https://www.britannica.com/place/Goias-state-Brazil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/s/Sidereal+Day
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/a-cerrado-above-it-all-154336/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_anteater#/media/File:Myrmecophaga_tridactyla_345917023_(cropped).jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerrado#Climate

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260416.html

#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #art #science #nature #education #apod

2026 March 20

Spring Equinox at Teide Observatory
* Image Credit & Copyright: Juan Carlos Casado (Starry Earth, TWAN)
https://twanight.org/profile/juan-carlos-casado/confirmed-photos/#tab-content

Explanation:
The defining astronomical moment of the equinox today is at 14:46 UTC (March 20). That's when the Sun crosses the celestial equator moving north in its yearly journey through planet Earth's sky, marking the beginning of spring for our fair planet in the northern hemisphere and fall in the southern hemisphere. Then, day and night are nearly equal around the globe. In fact, both day and nighttime exposures from a spring equinox at the Observatorio del Teide in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, are used in this composited skyscape. Over 1,000 images were taken with a fisheye lens, later corrected for distortion and merged for the ambitious equinox project. The apparent motion of the Sun setting along the celestial equator on the equinox date follows the bright linear, diagonal track from the sequence of daytime exposures taken over 6 hours. After sunset, nighttime exposures recorded startrails, with the celestial equator as a linear track and concentric arcs circling the north celestial pole near Polaris at upper right and the south celestial pole beyond the lower left edge (and below the Teide horizon). The foreground includes the distant Teide volcano peak and the observatory's pyramid-shaped solar laboratory building.
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/night-sky-network/embracing-the-equinox/
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/march-equinox.html
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11353
https://www.iac.es/en/observatorios-de-canarias/teide-observatory
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260320.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap021115.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231203.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121213.html

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260320.html

#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #art #science #nature #education #apod

2026 March 13

Toolondo Totality Trails
* Image Credit & Copyright: Jason Perry
https://www.pdogastrophotography.com/about-the-photographer

Explanation:
In this composited night skyscape, stacked exposures trace graceful star trails above Lake Toolondo, Victoria, Australia, planet Earth. Captured while the lunar eclipse of March 3 was in progress, the exposures used were made during the hour-long total eclipse phase. So faint star trails are easily visible along with the trail of the reddened Moon in the eclipse-darkened skies above the lake and trees. Of course, the apparent motion of Moon and stars revealed in the timelapse composite reflect the Earth's daily rotation around its axis. Dramatically punctuating the Moon's trail as totality ended, a single, separate telephoto image of the totally eclipsed Moon was scaled and blended into the scene.
https://science.nasa.gov/moon/eclipses/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5604
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260307.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260305.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230922.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240817.html

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/fap/ap260313.html

#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #art #science #nature #education #apod

One of my favorite things about #astronomy is how well it goes with #art and spacing out generally. Since I can't go into the telescopes atm, had a bit of fun. Def recommend #watercolour paints for #planets .

Obviously these ones are destined for a fabulous collision due to their proximity but it makes for some fun #scifi thoughts. Please imagine at least 1 is traveling escape velocity and will get away.

#Astrodon #sciart #science #saturday #AstroArt #fediart #astro

2025 September 13

Star Trails over One-Mile Radio Telescope
* Image Credit & Copyright: Joao Yordanov Serralheiro
https://www.joaoysphotography.com/about

Explanation:
The steerable 60 foot diameter dish antenna of the One-Mile Telescope at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, UK, is pointing skyward in this evocative night-skyscape. To capture the dramatic scene, consecutive 30 second exposures were recorded over a period of 90 minutes. Combined, the exposures reveal a background of gracefully arcing star trails that reflect planet Earth's daily rotation on its axis. The North Celestial Pole, the extension of Earth's axis of rotation into space, points near Polaris, the North Star. That's the bright star that creates the short trail near the center of the concentric arcs. But the historic One-Mile Telescope array also relied on planet Earth's rotation to operate. Exploring the universe at radio wavelengths, it was the first radio telescope to use Earth-rotation aperture synthesis. That technique uses the rotation of the Earth to change the relative orientation of the telescope array and celestial radio sources to create radio maps of the sky at a resolution better than that of the human eye.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250913.html

#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #science #nature

2025 September 6

Sardinia Sunset
* Image Credit & Copyright: Lorenzo Busilacchi

Explanation:
When the sun sets on September 7, the Full Moon will rise. And on that date denizens around much of our fair planet, including parts of Antarctica, Australia, Asia, Europe, and Africa can witness a total lunar eclipse, with the Moon completely immersed in Earth's shadow. As the bright Full Moon first enters Earth's shadow it will darken, finally taking on a reddish hue during the total eclipse phase. In fact, the color of the Moon during a total lunar eclipse is due to reddened light from sunrises and sunsets around planet Earth. The reddened sunlight is scattered by a dense atmosphere into the planet's otherwise dark central shadow. When the sun set on August 22, this telephoto snapshot of red skies, blue sea, and the Mangiabarche Lighthouse was captured from Sant'Antioco, Sardinia, Italy.
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/total-lunar-eclipse-september-7-2025/

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250906.html

#space_related #astroart #art #astrophotography #photography #science #nature #Space_Culture_Club

2013 May 13

Partial Solar Eclipse with Airplane
* Image Credit & Copyright: Phillip Calais

Explanation:
It was just eight minutes after sunrise, last week, and already there were four things in front of the Sun. The largest and most notable was Earth's Moon, obscuring a big chunk of the Sun's lower limb as it moved across the solar disk, as viewed from Fremantle, Australia. This was expected as the image was taken during a partial solar eclipse -- an eclipse that left sunlight streaming around all sides of the Moon from some locations. Next, a band of clouds divided the Sun horizontally while showing interesting internal structure vertically. The third intervening body might be considered to be the Earth's atmosphere, as it dimmed the Sun from its higher altitude brightness while density fluctuations caused the Sun's edges to appear to shimmer. Although closest to the photographer, the least expected solar occulter was an airplane. Quite possibly, passengers on both sides of that airplane were contemplating the unusual view only visible out the eastern-facing windows.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130513.html

#space_related #astroart #art #astrophotography #photography #science #nature #Space_Culture_Club

2023 October 8

Plane, Clouds, Moon, Spots, Sun
* Image Credit & Copyright: Doyle and Shannon Slifer

Explanation:
What's that in front of the Sun? The closest object is an airplane, visible just below the Sun's center and caught purely by chance. Next out are numerous clouds in Earth's atmosphere, creating a series of darkened horizontal streaks. Farther out is Earth's Moon, seen as the large dark circular bite on the upper right. Just above the airplane and just below the Sun's surface are sunspots. The main sunspot group captured here, AR 2192, was in 2014 one of the largest ever recorded and had been crackling and bursting with flares since it came around the edge of the Sun a week before. This show of solar silhouettes was unfortunately short-lived. Within a few seconds the plane flew away. Within a few minutes the clouds drifted off. Within a few hours the partial solar eclipse of the Sun by the Moon was over. Fortunately, when it comes to the Sun, even unexpected alignments are surprisingly frequent. Perhaps one will be imaged this Saturday when a new partial solar eclipse will be visible from much of North and South America.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231008.html

#space_related #astroart #art #astrophotography #photography #science #nature #Space_Culture_Club

"Before going to bed, we dedicate ourselves once again to the works of Judy W. Ross. Because in an anniversary year, all those involved and supporters should receive the recognition they deserve."

2003 October 17

Astronomy Quilt of the Week
* Credit & Copyright: Judy W. Ross, Point Roberts, WA

Explanation:
Demonstrating her mastery of a traditional astronomical imaging technique quilter and astronomy enthusiast Judy Ross has produced this spectacular composition of "Astronomy Quilt Piece of the Week". Her year-long effort resulted in an arrangement for a six by seven foot quilt consisting of 52 individual pieces (11 inches by 8 inches), one for each week, which she reports were inspired by her steady diet of APOD's daily offerings. Some of the pieces are based on actual pictures, such as the Hubble Space Telescope's view of planet forming AB Aurigae or Bill Keel's image of the nearby Pinwheel Galaxy. Others, with titles like the Blue Carpet Nebula and Duck Contemplates Black Hole, are from her own creative imaginings.

#space #NASA #astrophotography #apod #aniversary #photography #art #astroart #quilting #quilt #craft #space_related #Space_Culture_Club

"How about a little manual work for a change to really come down from the stress of the day? Let's be inspired by the quilting of Judy W. Ross and make ourselves comfortable with a cup of tea."

2004 November 25

What the Hubble Saw
* Credit & Copyright: Judy W. Ross, Point Roberts, WA

Explanation:
In this striking 41 inch by 38 inch quilt, astronomy enthusiast Judy Ross has interpreted some of the Hubble Space Telescope's best galactic and extragalactic vistas. Featured in past APODs, clockwise from the lower right are; the Red Rectangle Nebula, NGC 2392, the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy, V838 Monocerotis - the Milky Way's most mysterious star, and supernova remnant N49 - the cosmic debris from an exploded star. Of course, quilts have been used historically to represent astronomical concepts. And while inspired by the images of the cosmos that she incorporates into her quilts, Ross reports that she is still a little daunted by the intricacies of the Cat's Eye Nebula revealed by the Hubble's sharp vision.
https://quiltindex.org/

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap041125.html

#space #NASA #astrophotography #photography #art #astroart #quilting #quilt #craft #space_related #Space_Culture_Club

2015 December 24

Star Colors and Pinyon Pine
* Image Credit & Copyright: Stan Honda
http://www.stanhonda.com/

Explanation:
Beautiful, luminous decorations on this pinyon pine tree are actually bright stars in the constellation Scorpius and the faint glow of the central Milky Way. Captured in June from the north rim of the Grand Canyon of planet Earth, the shallow, close focus image has rendered pine needles on the tree branch sharp, but blurred the distant stars, their light smeared into remarkably colorful disks. Of course, temperature determines the color of a star. Most of the out-of-focus bright stars of Scorpius show a predominately blue hue, their surface temperatures much hotter than the Sun's. Cooler and larger than the Sun, and noticably redder on the scene, is giant star Antares at the heart of the scorpion. In focused, telescopic views the whitish disk at the upper right would be immediately recognizable though, reflecting the Sun's light as ringed gas giant Saturn.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110211.html

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151224.html

#Space_Culture_Club #space_related #astroart #art #photography #science #nature

2023 August 23 (*)

The Meteor and the Galaxy
* Credit & Copyright: Jose Pedrero
https://www.instagram.com/josepedrero.jpart/

Explanation:
It came from outer space. It -- in this case a sand-sized bit of a comet nucleus -- was likely ejected many years ago from Sun-orbiting Comet Swift-Tuttle, but then continued to orbit the Sun alone. When the Earth crossed through this orbit, the piece of comet debris impacted the atmosphere of our fair planet and was seen as a meteor. This meteor deteriorated, causing gases to be emitted that glowed in colors emitted by its component elements. The featured image was taken last week(*) from Castilla La Mancha, Spain, during the peak night of the Perseids meteor shower. The picturesque meteor streak happened to appear in the only one of 50 frames that also included the Andromeda galaxy. Stars dot the frame, each much further away than the meteor. Compared to the stars, the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is, again, much further away.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230823.html

#space #galaxy #perseids #astrophotography #photography #astroart #science #astronomy #nature #NASA

@futurebird

"Thank you for accompanying me through space and time!
We are 100 now .. ok with me 101 that's worth a little celebration, isn't it? "

Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning
* Image Credit & Copyright: Antti Kemppainen

Explanation:
Sometimes the sky itself is the best show in town. In January 2007, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day celebrations. On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance. Near the image center, though, seen through clouds, was the most unusual sight of all: Comet McNaught. The photogenic comet was so bright that it even remained visible though the din of Earthly flashes. Comet McNaught has now returned to the outer Solar System and is now only visible with a large telescope. The featured image is actually a three photograph panorama digitally processed to reduce red reflections from the exploding firework.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap131110.html

#Space_Culture_Club #space_related #astroart #art #photography #science #nature #philosophy #culture #literature

2020 April 5

Color the Universe! 🎨
* Image Credit: Unknown

Explanation:
Wouldn't it be fun to color in the universe? If you think so, please accept this famous astronomical illustration as a preliminary substitute. You, your friends, your parents or children, can print it out or even color it digitally. While coloring, you might be interested to know that even though this illustration has appeared in numerous places over the past 100 years, the actual artist remains unknown. Furthermore, the work has no accepted name -- can you think of a good one? The illustration, first appearing in a book by Camille Flammarion in 1888, is used frequently to show that humanity's present concepts are susceptible to being supplanted by greater truths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammarion_engraving
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3329
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zp60ODhbb4
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k408619m/f4.image
https://books.google.com/books?id=ScDVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA163
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Flammarion
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap010101.html

https://www.thecolor.com/Category/Coloring/Planets.aspx
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coloring-for-stress_n_5975832

For Your Contribution:
http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=200405

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200405.html

#Space_Culture_Club #space_related #astroart #art #photography #science #nature #philosophy #culture #literature

Eclipses in mythology and culture

from Contributors to Wikimedia projects

Eclipses of the Sun and of the Moon have been described by nearly every culture. In cultures without an astronomical explanation, eclipses were often attributed to supernatural causes or regarded as bad omens.
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Religious and cultural practices

While solar and lunar eclipses are today understood astronomically as one celestial body shadowing another, their appearance from Earth does not intuitively belie a similar cause for each.
Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak, and Ken Willcox classified solar eclipse mythologies into four distinct genres:

+ A celestial being (usually a monster) attempts to destroy the Sun.
+ The Sun fights with its lover the Moon.
+ The Sun and Moon make love and discreetly hide themselves in darkness.
+ The Sun god grows angry, sad, sick, or neglectful.
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Abrahamic religions

In the Talmud, solar eclipses are described as ill omens and several events in the Hebrew Bible are said to have occurred during eclipses. Judaism at large has been accepting of the modern astronomical explanation of eclipses and today many rabbis consider eclipses to be reminders of divinity and a time for prayer and introspection.
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The periodicity of lunar eclipses been deduced by Neo-Babylonian astronomers in the sixth century BCE and the periodicity of solar eclipses was deduced in first century BCE by Greek astronomers, who developed the Antikythera mechanism and had understood the Sun, Moon, and Earth to be spherical celestial bodies since Aristotle. The astronomical understanding of eclipses was thus well understood in the Ancient Near East in which Christianity developed.
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The New Testament describes the sky as darkening for hours during the crucifixion of Jesus. As the event's lengthy duration and occurrence on the day of a ...
Read more
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipses_in_mythology_and_culture#

#space_related #astroart #art #photography #science #nature #philosophy #culture #literature #Space_Culture_Club

2020 June 15

A Ring of Fire Sunrise Solar Eclipse
* Video Credit: Colin Legg & Geoff Sims
https://www.facebook.com/ColinLeggPhotography
https://www.facebook.com/BeyondBeneath;
* Music: Peter Nanasi
https://www.peternanasi.com/about

Explanation:
What's rising above the horizon behind those clouds? It's the Sun. Most sunrises don't look like this, though, because most sunrises don't include the Moon. In the early morning of 2013 May 10, however, from Western Australia, the Moon was between the Earth and the rising Sun. At times, it would be hard for the uninformed to understand what was happening. In an annular eclipse, the Moon is too far from the Earth to block the entire Sun, and at most leaves a ring of fire where sunlight pours out around every edge of the Moon. The featured time-lapse video also recorded the eclipse through the high refraction of the Earth's atmosphere just above the horizon, making the unusual rising Sun and Moon appear also flattened. As the video continues on, the Sun continues to rise, and the Sun and Moon begin to separate. This weekend, a new annular solar eclipse will occur, visible from central Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and a narrow band across Asia, with much of Earth's Eastern hemisphere being able to see a partial solar eclipse.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200615.html

#space_related #earth #sun #moon #eclipse #astrophotography #astroart #art #photography #science #nature #NASA #Space_Culture_Club

"Welcome back to the
Space Culture Club
(Feel free to contribute)
https://defcon.social/@grobi/114663418339078163 "

2023 September 17

Moon Mountains Magnified during Ring of Fire Eclipse
* Credit & Copyright: Wang Letian (Eyes at Night)
http://www.luckwlt.com/About%20Me.html

Explanation:
What are those dark streaks in this composite image of a solar eclipse? They are reversed shadows of mountains at the edge of the Moon. The center image, captured from Xiamen, China, has the Moon's center directly in front of the Sun's center. The Moon, though, was too far from the Earth to completely block the entire Sun. Light that streamed around the edges of the Moon is called a ring of fire. Images at each end of the sequence show sunlight that streamed through lunar valleys. As the Moon moved further in front of the Sun, left to right, only the higher peaks on the Moon's perimeter could block sunlight. Therefore, thehttps://defcon.social/@grobi/114663418339078163 dark streaks are projected, distorted, reversed, and magnified shadows of mountains at the Moon's edge. Bright areas are called Baily's Beads. Only people in a narrow swath across Earth's Eastern Hemisphere were able to view this full annular solar eclipse in 2020. Next month, though, a narrow swath crossing both North and South America will be exposed to the next annular solar eclipse. And next April, a total solar eclipse will be visible across North America.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230917.html

#space_related #earth #sun #moon #eclipse #astrophotography #astroart #art #photography #science #nature #NASA #Space_Culture_Club

2025 July 1
A fisheye image of the sky is shown on the left with the landscape-foreground surrounding it. The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy runs down the center. At first glance the sky looks like oddly like an eye of a dragon.

Eye Sky a Dragon
* Image Credit & Copyright: Anton Komlev
https://www.instagram.com/komlev.av/

Explanation:
What do you see when you look into this sky? In the center, in the dark, do you see a night sky filled with stars? Do you see a sunset to the left? Clouds all around? Do you see the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy running down the middle? Do you see the ruins of an abandoned outpost on a hill? (The outpost is on Askold Island, Russia.) Do you see a photographer with a headlamp contemplating surreal surroundings? (The featured image is a panorama of 38 images taken last month and compiled into a Little Planet projection.) Do you see a rugged path lined with steps? Or do you see the eye of a dragon?
https://www.instagram.com/p/B1r5mYWIi9k/

Location:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBRMXR8y9Nc
https://www.rbth.com/arts/travel/2013/09/27/islands_of_riches_off_vladivostok_29725
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia

DIY:
https://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/little-planet-photos-5-simple-steps-to-making-panorama-worlds

For Your Desktop:
https://getwallpapers.com/collection/dragon-eye-wallpaper

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250701.html

#space_related #milkyway #astrophotography #astroart #photography #science #astronomy #nature #NASA #Space_Culture_Club

"Ahem, yes.. and no this is not First Mate Piggy's spacesuit and not Michael Jackson's costume for one of his most famous stage performances, even if this sculpture was called "Mooooonwalk", but read on for yourself..."

Suiting Up for the Moon
* Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Nemiroff (Michigan Tech. U.)
https://www.mtu.edu/physics/
https://www.mtu.edu/physics/department/faculty/nemiroff/

Explanation:
How will cows survive on the Moon? One of the most vexing questions asked about space, scientists have spent decades debating this key issue. Finally, after extensive computer modeling and over a dozen midnight milkings, engineers have designed, built, and now tested the new Lunar Grazing Module (LGM), a multi-purpose celestial bovine containment system. By now, many of you will not be surprised to be wished a Happy April Fool's Day from APOD. To the best of our knowledge, there are no current plans to launch cows into space. For one reason, cows tend to be large animals that don't launch easily or cheaply. As friendly as cows may be, head-to-head comparisons show that robotic rovers are usually more effective as scientific explorers. The featured image is of a thought-provoking work of art named "Mooooonwalk" which really is on display at a popular science museum.

+ Tech
https://www.ominous-valve.com/images/1954_c64.jpg
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140627.html

+ Science
https://science.nasa.gov/planetary-science/programs/mars-exploration/

+ Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXKDu6cdXLI

+ Culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day

+ Nature
https://www.wikihow.com/Milk-a-Cow

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150401.html

#space_related #space #astrophotography #astroart #art #photography #science #nature #NASA #biology #culture #physics #Space_Culture_Club #tech

2021 July 10

Mercury and the Da Vinci Glow
* Image Credit & Copyright: Gabriel Funes

Explanation:
On July 8th early morning risers saw Mercury near an old Moon low on the eastern horizon. On that date bright planet, faint glow of lunar night side, and sunlit crescent were captured in this predawn skyscape from Tenerife's Teide National Park in the Canary Islands. Never far from the Sun in planet Earth's sky, the fleeting inner planet shines near its brightest in the morning twilight scene. Mercury lies just below the zeta star of the constellation Taurus, Zeta Tauri, near the tip of the celestial bull's horn. Of course the Moon's ashen glow is earthshine, earthlight reflected from the Moon's night side. A description of earthshine, in terms of sunlight reflected by Earth's oceans illuminating the Moon's dark surface, was written over 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci. Waiting for the coming dawn in the foreground are the Teide Observatory's sentinels of the Sun, also known as (large domes left to right) the THEMIS, VTT, and GREGOR solar telescopes.
https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/visible-planets-tonight-mars-jupiter-venus-saturn-mercury/
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83782
https://science.nasa.gov/mercury/

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/04oct_leonardo

https://www.iac.es/en/observatorios-de-canarias/teide-observatory

#space_related #astrophotography #astroart #art #photography #science #nature #NASA #biology #Space_Culture_Club

2024 September 14

The Moona Lisa
* Image Credit & Copyright: Gianni Sarcone and Marcella Giulia Pace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianni_A._Sarcone

Explanation:
Only natural colors of the Moon in planet Earth's sky appear in this creative visual presentation. Arranged as pixels in a framed image, the lunar disks were photographed at different times. Their varying hues are ultimately due to reflected sunlight affected by changing atmospheric conditions and the alignment geometry of Moon, Earth, and Sun. Here, the darkest lunar disks are the colors of earthshine. A description of earthshine, in terms of sunlight reflected by Earth's oceans illuminating the Moon's dark surface, was written over 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci. But stand farther back from your screen or just shift your gaze to the smaller versions of the image. You might also see one of da Vinci's most famous works of art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianni_A._Sarcone

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/portrait-of-lisa-gherardini-wife-of-francesco-del-giocondo-known-as-monna-lisa-la-gioconda-or-mona-lisa-1503-1519-leonardo-di-ser-piero-da-vinci-dit-l%C3%A9onard-de-vinci-1452-1519-paris-mus%C3%A9e-du-louvre/uQGZ28lYUJ3OGw?hl=en&ms=%7B%22x%22%3A0.7%2C%22y%22%3A0.3638750021607957%2C%22z%22%3A9%2C%22size%22%3A%7B%22width%22%3A2.4024024024024024%2C%22height%22%3A0.75%7D%7D

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5187/

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240914.html

#space_related #astrophotography #astroart #art #photography #science #nature #NASA #literature #Space_Culture_Club

2019 October 23

Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
* Painting Credit: Vincent van Gogh;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh
* Digital Rendering: MoMA, Google Arts & Culture, via Wikipedia
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79802

Explanation:
The painting Starry Night is one of the most famous icons of the night sky ever created. The scene was painted by Vincent van Gogh in southern France in 1889. The swirling style of Starry Night appears, to many, to make the night sky come alive. Although van Gogh frequently portrayed real settings in his paintings, art historians do not agree on precisely what stars and planets are being depicted in Starry Night. The style of Starry Night is post-impressionism, a popular painting style at the end of the nineteenth century. The original Starry Night painting hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, New York, USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night

!>> https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/the-starry-night-756b03a918544497b7a4ba644e37550b
https://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/
https://vangoghletters.org/vg/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starry_Night_Over_the_Rh%C3%B4ne
https://www.andreaplanet.com/mosaic/starrynight/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Impressionism

https://www.moma.org/

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191023.html

#space_related #astroart #art #photography #science #nature #culture #Space_Culture_Club

2018 March 19

The Nebra Sky Disk
* Image Credit: Dbachmann, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dbachmann
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nebra_Scheibe.jpg

Explanation:
Some consider it the oldest known illustration of the night sky. But what, exactly, does it depict, and why was it made? The Nebra sky disk was found with a metal detector in 1999 by treasure hunters near Nebra, Germany, in the midst of several bronze-age weapons. The ancient artifact spans about 30 centimeters and has been associated with the Unetice culture that inhabited part of Europe around 1600 BC. Reconstructed, the dots are thought to represent stars, with the cluster representing the Pleiades, and the large circle and the crescent representing the Sun and Moon. The purpose of the disk remains unknown -- hypotheses including an astronomical clock, a work of art, and a religious symbol. Valued at about $11 million, some believe that the Nebra sky disk is only one of a pair, with the other disk still out there waiting to be discovered.

+ #History & Culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disc
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/235/the-nebra-sky-disk---ancient-map-of-the-stars/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_(Unstrut)
https://www.science.org/content/article/slaughter-bridge-uncovering-colossal-bronze-age-battle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9An%C4%9Btice_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1600s_BC_(decade)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age_Europe

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap171107.html

+ Constellation
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap171114.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160919.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180318.html

#space_related #astrophotography #astroart #art #photography #science #nature #NASA #philosophy #biology #culture #literature #Space_Culture_Club

2021 January 12

A Historic Brazilian Constellation
* Image Credit & Copyright: Rodrigo Guerra
https://www.instagram.com/rodrigoguerra13/

Explanation:
The night sky is filled with stories. Cultures throughout history have projected some of their most enduring legends onto the stars above. Generations of people see these stellar constellations, hear the associated stories, and pass them down. Featured here is the perhaps unfamiliar constellation of the Old Man, long recognized by the Tupi peoples native to regions of South America now known as Brazil. The Old Man, in more modern vernacular, may be composed of the Hyades star cluster as his head and the belt of Orion as part of one leg. Tupi folklore relates that the other leg was cut off by his unhappy wife, causing it to end at the orange star now known as Betelgeuse. The Pleiades star cluster, on the far left, can be interpreted as a head feather. In the featured image, the hobbled Old Man is mirrored by a person posing in the foreground. Folklore of the night sky is important for many reasons, including that it records cultural heritage and documents the universality of human intelligence and imagination.

+ Culture
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43392390
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupi_people

+ Constellation
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191206.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap161204.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200101.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190901.html

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210112.html

#space_related #astrophotography #astroart #art #photography #science #nature #NASA #philosophy #biology #culture #literature #Space_Culture_Club

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Space Culture Club
(Feel free to contribute, rather as a reply than using the hashtag)

"Welcome to Space's Culture Club! Make yourself comfortable and treat yourself to a good cup of tea in a pleasant atmosphere. We deal with space-related topics in terms of cultures, history, philosophy, art, literature and more in friendly company whether member or not!"

Human as Spaceship
* Space Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, and J. Maiz- Apellániz (IAA);
https://www.iaa.es/
https://www.spacetelescope.org/
https://www.esa.int/
https://www.nasa.gov/
* Acknowledgement: D. De Martin;
* Human Image Copyright: Charis Tsevis;
https://www.tsevis.com/
* Composition: R. J. Nemiroff
https://www.mtu.edu/physics/department/faculty/nemiroff/

Explanation:
You are a spaceship soaring through the universe. So is your dog. We all carry with us trillions of microorganisms as we go through life. These multitudes of bacteria, fungi, and archaea have different DNA than you. Collectively called your microbiome, your shipmates outnumber your own cells. Your crew members form communities, help digest food, engage in battles against intruders, and sometimes commute on a liquid superhighway from one end of your body to the other. Much of what your microbiome does, however, remains unknown. You are the captain, but being nice to your crew may allow you to explore more of your local cosmos.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190818.html

#space_related #astrophotography #astroart #art #photography #science #nature #NASA #philosophy #biology #culture #literature #Space_Culture_Club

2022 July 28

North Celestial Tree
* Image Credit & Copyright: Jeff Dai (TWAN)
https://twanight.org/profile/jeff-dai/

Explanation:
An ancient tree seems to reach out and touch Earth's North Celestial Pole in this well-planned night skyscape. Consecutive exposures for the timelapse composition were recorded with a camera fixed to a tripod in the Yiwu Desert Poplar Forests in northwest Xinjiang, China. The graceful star trail arcs reflect Earth's daily rotation around its axis. By extension, the axis of rotation leads to the center of the concentric arcs in the night sky. Known as the North Star, bright star Polaris is a friend to northern hemisphere night sky photographers and celestial navigators alike. That's because Polaris lies very close to the North Celestial Pole on the sky. Of course it can be found at the tip of an outstretched barren branch in a postcard from a rotating planet.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220728.html

#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #science #nature

Savudrija Star Trails
* Image Credit & Copyright: Branko Nadj
https://www.instagram.com/bnastro000/

Explanation:
Savudrija lighthouse shines along the coast near the northern end of the Istrian peninsula in this well-composed night skyscape. A navigational aid for sailors on the Adriatic Sea, the historic lighthouse was constructed in the early 19th century. But an even older aid to navigation shines in the sky above, Polaris, alpha star of the constellation Ursa Minor and also known as the North Star. In this scene Polaris forms the shortest bright arc near the North Celestial Pole, the extension of Earth's axis of rotation into space. Of course, the North Celestial Pole lies exactly at the center of all the concentric startrails. The composite image is a digital stack of 400 exposures, each 30 seconds long, taken with camera and tripod fixed to a rotating planet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savudrija_Lighthouse
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110514.html
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/whats-up-june-2025-skywatching-tips-from-nasa/

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250605.html

#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #science #nature

NASA Webb Identifies Frozen Water in Young Star System
by NASA Webb Mission Team

Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous detections of its gaseous form, water vapor, and its presence in our own solar system.

Now there is definitive evidence: Researchers confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice in a dusty debris disk that orbits a Sun-like star 155 light-years away using detailed data known as spectra from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. (The term water ice specifies its makeup, since many other frozen molecules are also observed in space, such as carbon dioxide ice, or “dry ice.”) In 2008, data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope hinted at the possibility of frozen water in this system.

“Webb unambiguously detected not just water ice, but crystalline water ice, which is also found in locations like Saturn’s rings and icy bodies in our solar system’s Kuiper Belt,” said Chen Xie, the lead author of the new paper and an assistant research scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

All the frozen water Webb detected is paired with fine dust particles throughout the disk — like itsy-bitsy “dirty snowballs.” The results published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Astronomers have been waiting for this definitive data for decades. “When I was a graduate student 25 years ago, my advisor told me there should be ice in debris disks, but prior to Webb, we didn’t have instruments sensitive enough to make these observations,” said Christine Chen, a co-author and an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. “What’s most striking is that this data looks similar to the telescope’s other recent observations of Kuiper Belt objects in our own solar system.”
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https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/another-first-nasa-webb-identifies-frozen-water-in-young-star-system/

* Artwork Credits:
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI)

#space #star #stellardisks #astroart #science #nature #NASA #ESA

NASA Webb Identifies Frozen Water in Young Star System
by NASA Webb Mission Team

Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous detections of its gaseous form, water vapor, and its presence in our own solar system.

Now there is definitive evidence: Researchers confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice in a dusty debris disk that orbits a Sun-like star 155 light-years away using detailed data known as spectra from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. (The term water ice specifies its makeup, since many other frozen molecules are also observed in space, such as carbon dioxide ice, or “dry ice.”) In 2008, data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope hinted at the possibility of frozen water in this system.

“Webb unambiguously detected not just water ice, but crystalline water ice, which is also found in locations like Saturn’s rings and icy bodies in our solar system’s Kuiper Belt,” said Chen Xie, the lead author of the new paper and an assistant research scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

All the frozen water Webb detected is paired with fine dust particles throughout the disk — like itsy-bitsy “dirty snowballs.” The results published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Astronomers have been waiting for this definitive data for decades. “When I was a graduate student 25 years ago, my advisor told me there should be ice in debris disks, but prior to Webb, we didn’t have instruments sensitive enough to make these observations,” said Christine Chen, a co-author and an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. “What’s most striking is that this data looks similar to the telescope’s other recent observations of Kuiper Belt objects in our own solar system.”
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read more >>
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/another-first-nasa-webb-identifies-frozen-water-in-young-star-system/

* Artwork Credits:
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI)

#space #star #stellardisks #astroart #science #nature #NASA #ESA

NASA Webb Identifies Frozen Water in Young Star System
by NASA Webb Mission Team

Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous detections of its gaseous form, water vapor, and its presence in our own solar system.

Now there is definitive evidence: Researchers confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice in a dusty debris disk that orbits a Sun-like star 155 light-years away using detailed data known as spectra from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. (The term water ice specifies its makeup, since many other frozen molecules are also observed in space, such as carbon dioxide ice, or “dry ice.”) In 2008, data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope hinted at the possibility of frozen water in this system.

“Webb unambiguously detected not just water ice, but crystalline water ice, which is also found in locations like Saturn’s rings and icy bodies in our solar system’s Kuiper Belt,” said Chen Xie, the lead author of the new paper and an assistant research scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

All the frozen water Webb detected is paired with fine dust particles throughout the disk — like itsy-bitsy “dirty snowballs.” The results published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Astronomers have been waiting for this definitive data for decades. “When I was a graduate student 25 years ago, my advisor told me there should be ice in debris disks, but prior to Webb, we didn’t have instruments sensitive enough to make these observations,” said Christine Chen, a co-author and an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. “What’s most striking is that this data looks similar to the telescope’s other recent observations of Kuiper Belt objects in our own solar system.”
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read more >>
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/another-first-nasa-webb-identifies-frozen-water-in-young-star-system/

* Artwork Credits:
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI)

#space #star #stellardisks #astroart #science #nature #NASA #ESA

NASA Webb Identifies Frozen Water in Young Star System
by NASA Webb Mission Team

Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous detections of its gaseous form, water vapor, and its presence in our own solar system.

Now there is definitive evidence: Researchers confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice in a dusty debris disk that orbits a Sun-like star 155 light-years away using detailed data known as spectra from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. (The term water ice specifies its makeup, since many other frozen molecules are also observed in space, such as carbon dioxide ice, or “dry ice.”) In 2008, data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope hinted at the possibility of frozen water in this system.

“Webb unambiguously detected not just water ice, but crystalline water ice, which is also found in locations like Saturn’s rings and icy bodies in our solar system’s Kuiper Belt,” said Chen Xie, the lead author of the new paper and an assistant research scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

All the frozen water Webb detected is paired with fine dust particles throughout the disk — like itsy-bitsy “dirty snowballs.” The results published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Astronomers have been waiting for this definitive data for decades. “When I was a graduate student 25 years ago, my advisor told me there should be ice in debris disks, but prior to Webb, we didn’t have instruments sensitive enough to make these observations,” said Christine Chen, a co-author and an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. “What’s most striking is that this data looks similar to the telescope’s other recent observations of Kuiper Belt objects in our own solar system.”
..

read more >>
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/another-first-nasa-webb-identifies-frozen-water-in-young-star-system/

* Artwork Credits:
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI)

#space #star #stellardisks #astroart #science #nature #NASA #ESA

NASA Webb Identifies Frozen Water in Young Star System
by NASA Webb Mission Team

Is frozen water scattered in systems around other stars? Astronomers have long expected it is, partially based on previous detections of its gaseous form, water vapor, and its presence in our own solar system.

Now there is definitive evidence: Researchers confirmed the presence of crystalline water ice in a dusty debris disk that orbits a Sun-like star 155 light-years away using detailed data known as spectra from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. (The term water ice specifies its makeup, since many other frozen molecules are also observed in space, such as carbon dioxide ice, or “dry ice.”) In 2008, data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope hinted at the possibility of frozen water in this system.

“Webb unambiguously detected not just water ice, but crystalline water ice, which is also found in locations like Saturn’s rings and icy bodies in our solar system’s Kuiper Belt,” said Chen Xie, the lead author of the new paper and an assistant research scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

All the frozen water Webb detected is paired with fine dust particles throughout the disk — like itsy-bitsy “dirty snowballs.” The results published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Astronomers have been waiting for this definitive data for decades. “When I was a graduate student 25 years ago, my advisor told me there should be ice in debris disks, but prior to Webb, we didn’t have instruments sensitive enough to make these observations,” said Christine Chen, a co-author and an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. “What’s most striking is that this data looks similar to the telescope’s other recent observations of Kuiper Belt objects in our own solar system.”
..

read more >>
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/another-first-nasa-webb-identifies-frozen-water-in-young-star-system/

* Artwork Credits:
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI)

#space #star #stellardisks #astroart #science #nature #NASA #ESA

The Star Trails of Kilimanjaro
* Credit & Copyright: Dan Heller

Explanation:
The night had no moon, but the stars were out. And camped at 16,000 feet on Mt. Kilimanjaro, photographer Dan Heller recorded this marvelous 3 1/2 hour long exposure. Here the landscape is lit mostly by the stars. Flashlights give the tents an erie internal radiance while the greenish glow from the distant city lights of Moshi, Tanzania filter through the clouds below. The view from this famous equatorial African mountain is toward the south, putting the South Celestial Pole close to the horizon on the far left, near the center of the graceful concentric star trail arcs. In the thin air and clear dark skies, even the ghostly Milky Way left a faint triangular glow as it swept across the middle of the dreamlike scene.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040911.html

#space #earth #astrophotography #photography #astroart #science #nature

Beautiful new cover at Nature Astronomy's

Image: Carlos Villamil, Wentworth Institute of Technology and Julien de Wit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cover design: Bethany Vukomanovic

https://www.nature.com/natastron/volumes/8/issues/11

#Astronomy #stars #planets #stellar #seismology #StellarSeismology #Astrodon #Nature #NatureAstronomy #cover #covers #astroart #spaceaty #art #space #science #STEM

Finished my #Mars piece! RIPPLES OF BARSOOM, a close-up of two ancient #Martian tributaries and the main river channel of Nirgal Vallis, as captured by @uahirise . 16x12”, ink on cotton

#SciArt #illustration #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #RemoteSensing #HiRISE #spacecraft #nasa #inkdrawing #inkygoodness #geology

Finished my #Mars piece! RIPPLES OF BARSOOM, a close-up of two ancient #Martian tributaries and the main river channel of Nirgal Vallis, as captured by @uahirise . 16x12”, ink on cotton

#SciArt #illustration #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #RemoteSensing #HiRISE #spacecraft #nasa #inkdrawing #inkygoodness #geology

Finished my #Mars piece! RIPPLES OF BARSOOM, a close-up of two ancient #Martian tributaries and the main river channel of Nirgal Vallis, as captured by @uahirise . 16x12”, ink on cotton

#SciArt #illustration #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #RemoteSensing #HiRISE #spacecraft #nasa #inkdrawing #inkygoodness #geology

Finished my #Mars piece! RIPPLES OF BARSOOM, a close-up of two ancient #Martian tributaries and the main river channel of Nirgal Vallis, as captured by @uahirise . 16x12”, ink on cotton

#SciArt #illustration #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #RemoteSensing #HiRISE #spacecraft #nasa #inkdrawing #inkygoodness #geology

Finished my #Mars piece! RIPPLES OF BARSOOM, a close-up of two ancient #Martian tributaries and the main river channel of Nirgal Vallis, as captured by @uahirise . 16x12”, ink on cotton

#SciArt #illustration #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #RemoteSensing #HiRISE #spacecraft #nasa #inkdrawing #inkygoodness #geology

Speculative solar system landscapes

« Comment on s'est longtemps représenté le monde de Vénus, évoquant l'époque Carbonifère terrestre »

/How we have long represented the world of Venus, evoking the terrestrial Carboniferous era

by Lucien Rudaux, Sur les autres mondes (1937)

#spaceart #venus #LucienRudaux #space #art #astroart

Speculative solar system landscapes

« Comment on s'est longtemps représenté le monde de Vénus, évoquant l'époque Carbonifère terrestre »

/How we have long represented the world of Venus, evoking the terrestrial Carboniferous era

by Lucien Rudaux, Sur les autres mondes (1937)

#spaceart #venus #LucienRudaux #space #art #astroart

Speculative solar system landscapes

« Comment on s'est longtemps représenté le monde de Vénus, évoquant l'époque Carbonifère terrestre »

/How we have long represented the world of Venus, evoking the terrestrial Carboniferous era

by Lucien Rudaux, Sur les autres mondes (1937)

#spaceart #venus #LucienRudaux #space #art #astroart

Speculative solar system landscapes

« Comment on s'est longtemps représenté le monde de Vénus, évoquant l'époque Carbonifère terrestre »

/How we have long represented the world of Venus, evoking the terrestrial Carboniferous era

by Lucien Rudaux, Sur les autres mondes (1937)

#spaceart #venus #LucienRudaux #space #art #astroart

Speculative solar system landscapes

« Comment on s'est longtemps représenté le monde de Vénus, évoquant l'époque Carbonifère terrestre »

/How we have long represented the world of Venus, evoking the terrestrial Carboniferous era

by Lucien Rudaux, Sur les autres mondes (1937)

#spaceart #venus #LucienRudaux #space #art #astroart

Happy Halloween 👻 🎃

📸 Sebastian Voltmer Photography

#astro #astroart #happyhalloween #space #universe #halloween #halloween2024 #sebastianvoltmer #science

I’m combining two #SpacetoberChallenge prompts: Re-entry/Landing and Space Center!

MIDNIGHT ZEPHYR, 10x13”, pearlescent #watercolor on black. Capturing the surreal final landing of shuttle Atlantis on July 21, 2011, bringing the Space Shuttle Program to a close.

#SpacetoberChallenge_04
#SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #SciArt #watercolorArt #art #painting #Space #SpaceShuttle #Atlantis #STS135 #MastoArt #MastoArtists #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #ArtistsOfMastodon

It’s hard to capture what I’m doing with this latest #Mars piece , but I think at last the sand and rock of converging #Martian #dunes are coming into focus, as captured by HiRISE.

#SciArt #illustration #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #RemoteSensing #HiRISE #spacecraft #nasa #InkDrawing #geology #MastoArt #MastoArtists #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #ArtistsOfMastodon

Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is #Moon! I love enhanced colored images that bring out the #geology and chemical content more, like my MINERAL MOON #watercolor from last year.

#Spacetober #SpacetoberChallenge_04
#SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #SciArt #watercolorArt #art #painting #Space #MastoArt #MastoArtists #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #ArtistsOfMastodon

Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is #LaunchVehicle! How could I not kick this off with the biggest and baddest rocket, #SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship? DAWN OF A NEW ERA, watercolor and ink, featuring the IFT-2 launch from last year.

#Spacetober2024 #Spacetober #SpacetoberChallenge_04
#SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #SciArt #watercolor #watercolorArt #Starship #art #painting #Space #MastoArt #MastoArtists #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #ArtistsOfMastodon

Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is #LaunchVehicle! How could I not kick this off with the biggest and baddest rocket, #SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship? DAWN OF A NEW ERA, watercolor and ink, featuring the IFT-2 launch from last year.

#Spacetober2024 #Spacetober #SpacetoberChallenge_04
#SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #SciArt #watercolor #watercolorArt #Starship #art #painting #Space #MastoArt #MastoArtists #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #ArtistsOfMastodon