nowhere to go but upwards
celestial deer

Ed Valigursky, Red spherical spacecraft This is just a test video, I think the modelling is pretty much done here, though I may need to adjust textures for scenes that use it. (the cabin dome should be a lot less bright in a darker environm...

I think the modelling is done on this Ed Valigursky design.
Though the surfaces will need adjusting for a final scene.

vimeo.com/1185054894?s...

Legs and engines do not animate, though I have it set up for versions with either or both retracted.

The Milky Way stretches brightly across the night sky above two telescope domes at an observatory

Our La Silla Observatory is a front-row seat to the Milky Way!

In the foreground we see the Danish 1.54-metre telescope, followed by the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope and our New Technology Telescope in the background.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2214a/

A tightly cropped Hubble view of a vast star-forming region known as the Trifid Nebula. The top left is bright blue. Brown and amber colors run from top right through the center in irregular, overlapping lines to the bottom-center. At bottom right, the view is almost black. Tiny, amber-colored stars appear throughout the scene. Toward the left there is a prominent brown shape that looks like a head with two horns. The left horn points left and is wavy. The right horn is triangular and points up. The brown dust continues, flowing down, as if along a back, and up toward the top right. A prominent line, about the same length as the left horn, appears below the middle of the body, and changes from orange to red. A small, separate semi-transparent pillar is left of the head. A few slightly larger, blue foreground stars with four diffraction spikes appear sprinkled throughout.

Hubble marks its 36th anniversary with a shimmering close-up of star-formation in the Trifid Nebula! Tiny, actively forming stars are eating and spewing material all around. (One at top left in brown, and two fiery red jets.) Explore it all: https://news.stsci.edu/4cvi5jL

So much is coming home to roost in the US space program - NASA space suit development has been underfunded since the 1970s.

Details of the flight shown graphically

Details of the proposed spacecraft

Two precious documents from Vadim Lukashevich
I have attempted to clean up, enlarge, and translate them

April 20, 1972 - #Apollo16. A view from the Landing Module, looking toward the Command and Service Module with Earth over the lunar horizon. Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke took this shot as they piloted the LM down to the lunar surface.

contactlight.de

Process of the Artemis II Earthset Plate

Thanks for following this body of work, it was an inspiring project for me!

#sciart

Primera etapa GS-1 recuperada. Blue Origin se convierte en la segunda empresa tras SpaceX en reutilizar y recuperar con éxito una primera etapa de un lanzador orbital.

River Mountains (2018)
Some of oldies don't deserve a redraw. They're just perfect!
#fantasy #landscape #mountains #sky #castle #art #painting #fortress #ancient #historic
This and many others in Mega-Pack 2018!
www.patreon.com/c/kvacm/shop

Apollo Soyuz checklists

Apollo Soyuz.

Detail of a teapot featuring Earthset over the Moon's cratered landscape.

Plate featuring Earthset over the Moon's cratered surface.

Planter with violet flowers wrapping around the side featuring Earth amongst the stars.

Pair of cups featuring Earth and the Moon.

Artemis II Restock preview is up!

Amyraehill.com

#sciart #bsnm

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

"ISS Transiting the Moon"

Oil painting on 5"x7" canvas paper.

Inspired by Andrew McCarthy's photo.

Painting of a nebula with swirling yellow orange clouds around a central area of blue white on an. Orange wall lit by some natural indirect light

This really pops on my living room wall in the morning.

It could on your wall.

Original is available

Crab Nebula
oil on canvas
2024

Based on the JWST image

#art #painting #sciArt #astronomy

earthskyart.ca/product/crab...

4x4” mini painting of the Artemis II core stage separation

my last Artemis II mini painting ✨

"Bailkal" version of Buran, Credit Vadim Lukasevich,

"Baikal" version of Buran, Credit Vadim Lukasevich,

With the original name "Baikal", with which the first ship (11F35 product 1.01 by the Ministry of Aircraft and 1K1 by the Ministry of Social Affairs) was taken to the site of the OKI (fire control tests) in the spring of 1988.

power point slide showing the camera locations on the orion spacecraft. For Artemis II, the vehicle-mounted OIS comprises: • 4 Solar Array Wing (SAW) cameras • 3 in-cabin wireless cameras • 3 external wired cameras • 2 human-health monitoring cameras • 2 camera controllers • 1 Fwd Bay high speed camera Other optical systems: • 4 wireless cameras for NatGeo payload (proprietary data) • 4 Portable computing devices (tablets) with webcams • 2 Nikon D5 DSLR camera bodies (+ lenses, batteries, etc.) • 2 ZCube video encoders (prime + spare) • 1 Docking Camera (DCAM) • 1 Optical Navigation (OPNAV) camera • 1 drag-on temp-mount camera to monitor crew ingress (KSC system)

Of course I only found this post-flight, but there is a good presentation of all the camera systems installed on the Artemis II Orion spacecraft. #Artemis

Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJzU...
PDF: ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20...

Newest release of #Jupiter aurora from program 17408. Observation date 2025-10-17, but released a few days ago.
www.planetarylightshow.com/jupiter/prop...
Credit: Planetary Light Show

Luce nello spazio🎭

New photos of the N1-L3 weight model. Well, some are new anyway...

The new Soviet Space Substack is out!
graphicsnickstevens.substack.com/p/new-photos...

Covering the recently released N1-L3 1M1 photos. In this case with the text from the source document, plus the usual cool image, cool link, and special download.

A slightly grainy, zoomed-out photo of the launch of Artemis 2, showing the rocket plume climbing into the blue sky.

I took this photo of Artemis 2 with a TLR film camera from the 1950s
@spacescout.bsky.social

Digital art drawing of Jupiter's moons as if seen from Jupiter's cloud tops. Swirling brown and tan clouds in a blue sky frame four small lumpy asteroids and four large spherical moons. Io has yellow and white regions with glowing red volcanoes and the plume of erupting volcanoes visible on the limb. Europa is white and tan, criss-crossed with brown cracks. Ganymede is brown, gray, and white, and Callisto is brown with tiny white craters. Io appears by far the largest--twice as big as Europa and Ganymede, which are about the same apparent size. Callisto is then half the size of those. The minor asteroid moons: Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, and Thebe; are elliptical lumps much smaller than Callisto.

Commission for @zinzrinz.bsky.social of all of Jupiter's Moons, as seen from the cloud tops, with the correct relative apparent sizes for each of the Galilean moons and the inner four asteroid moons.

4x4” acrylic mini painting of an astronaut tethered to a spaceship. The background has a vibrant burst of colors

a slightly larger astronaut

Shot from ground level, a round ceiling mural that echoed Metis embroidery. On a black background, we see a wild rose in tjr centre, surrounded by flowers, berries, birds and butterflies.

The mural in context - on the ceiling, surrounded by lights and blond wood ceiling tiles. It hangs above the soaring atrium of the University Commons

I was on the @ualberta.bsky.social campus today for the unveiling of this remarkable art installation by Metis painter Christi Belcourt. It’s called In My Grandmother’s Time, and it blends traditional motifs from Metis beading and embroidery with digital technology. And it’s gorgeous. #ualberta #yeg

Impressionist painting of a spiral galaxy in Orange & purple hues & a diffuse blue glow in the center with a computer monitor on the left middle with a photo of the galaxy from JWST

Second pass done. Shape is pretty much when I want it. Now just refine, refine.

pixel art of a bright ocean scene at sunrise or sunset, the clouds curve around a bluish sky which fades into the yellow of the sun. the ocena water reflects the bright yellow and fades into purple and blue on the edges of the waves

doing the best i can #pixelart

Captivating and brilliant!
@iaaa.org @nick-stevens.com

4x4” mini acrylic painting of a space ship with a small NASA logo

did not finish today’s painting, but please enjoy the tiny NASA logo

NASA Begins Implementation for ESA’s Rosalind Franklin Mission to Mars - NASA Science NASA has given approval for the agency’s Rosalind Franklin Support and Augmentation (ROSA) project to begin implementation, underscoring the agency’s

NASA will support @esa.int's Rosalind Franklin mission. Scheduled to launch in 2028, our Mars rover will be the first ever to drill up to two metres below the Red Planet's surface, searching for signs of past or present life on Mars 🔴 go.nasa.gov/4vAIeX1