International Association of Astronomical Artists

Nothing like getting your artwork back from a show and it’s damaged. Think this is my last year @ TAPS. 😔

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon Last year, an approximately 60 metre near-Earth object captured global attention. For a brief period, asteroid 2024 YR4 became the most dangerous asteroid discovered in the last 20 years. While an Ear...

This result was made possible by a close collaboration between ESA’s NEOCC, NASA’s CNEOS, and the Webb mission.

@stsci.edu @science.esa.int @operations.esa.int

🔗 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

Dive into Wool Creature Lab's World of Vibrant Felted Nudibranchs How artist Arina Bovenich's job at a remote biology research station transformed into a unique craft practice.

Wow, amazing #sciart via @thisiscolossal.com

Some goofball in front of a killer space painting, an artist wearing a T-Shirt that reads ON MY LAS BRAINCELL (features a cat graphic). This artist could use help, I'm certain

Live from our subterranean Space Art Studios, today at 3pm EST!

Over on my YouTube Channel. Get your fresh Space Art for the weekend

Big agree

Procyon is approaching the Forge Station in Earth orbit. The model is currently available as a bonus for my kitbash set :)

Devil’s Tower under Full Moon with Thunderstorm

(2022, private collection)

Topographic and Visual globes of Mars

Very handy for those working on Mars visualisations!

Separate Visual and Topographic Mars globes.

I bought mine from Sky & Telescope, but I'm sure there are other sources...

Galileo’s handwritten notes found in ancient astronomy text Discovery sheds new light on how famed astronomer came to lead a scientific revolution

A historian has discovered that a 16th century printing of The Almagest—a highly influential ancient astronomy text—contains extensive annotations from Galileo Galilei, the astronomer who later overthrew that text’s conception of a geocentric cosmos.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4aMAwRm

Adjust the rotation of the Earth, so it has a step change of 15 degrees.

Os presentamos Naukas Barcelona 2026 «Ciencia para salvar el mundo» | Sábado 30 mayo en el Museo de la Ciencia CosmoCaixa - Naukas Tras el estupendo estreno el año pasado, la plataforma Naukas y Fundación ”la Caixa” tienen el placer de presentar el evento NAUKAS BARCELONA «Ciencia para salvar el mundo» que se celebrará el sábado ...

Os presentamos Naukas Barcelona 2026 «Ciencia para salvar el mundo» | Sábado 30 mayo en el Museo de la Ciencia CosmoCaixa naukas.com/2026/02/17/o... vía @naukas.bsky.social

ISEI logo

iaaa.org/isei

ISEI (IAAA STEAM Educational Initiative) is developing as a collaborative educational platform produced by the membership of the International Association of Astronomical Artists, to integrate space sciences with the arts, within STEAM education.

A digital painting of two brachiosaurs in wandering through the snow. The aurora borealis is visible in the night sky.

A digital painting of two sinosauropteryxes standing in the snow. They're making a heart with their trans and lesbian pride striped glowing tails.

A digital painting of a tupandactylus flying above a lighthouse, where two other tupans clearly look agitated.

A digital painting of three utahraptors prowling a destroyed poaching camp. There is fire present (fire that one of the utahraptors is giddily spreading because she's a mischief goblin)

So, I'm going to be at PaleoFest this weekend! I'm super excited to be part of the very first PaleoFest marketplace. I'm sure there's going to be a ton of wonderful paleo folks there, and I'm really looking forward to everything I might learn

Eine breite, lange Wasserpfütze durchzieht das Watt und spiegelt den wolkenlosen Himmel. Links und rechts davon erstreckt sich die typische, durchzogene Wattlandschaft mit feuchten, glänzenden Schlickflächen. Am Horizont sind einige kleine Silhouetten von Menschen und Gebäuden zu erkennen. Das Licht der tief stehenden Sonne taucht den Himmel und das Watt in warme Gelb- und Blautöne.

Vom Wasser gestaltet. 🌊
Shaped by water.
#eastcoastkin #bluetue #tidesouttuesday #waterwednesday
#blueskymonday

A black dragon with flame smoldering in its mouth and lines of magma burning between its scales spreads mighty wings as it emerges from the ocean. Water spirals and froths, rising at opposite edges of the panel with the massive displacement of the dragon rising. The rib supports of its wings are thick and spiked, but the flesh between is tattered and showing through at the edge of its wings. A cloud of orange billowing smoke rises behind. Lines of fiery debris launch in random directions. A spire of rock rises from the ocean as a tiny figure perches atop faces the massive beast.

Tomorrow (March 4, 11am ET) we’re offering a pair of dragon paintings including a preliminary for DEATHWING from World of Warcraft as commissioned by Blizzard Entertainment.

A preview is now available for our paid subscribers on Substack:

theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/world-of-w...

Lunar Eclipse Composite - March 3 2026 Lunar eclipse composited (badly) over a starfield taken a few months ago.

Full version: flic.kr/p/2rZu1fH

Telstar-1, a white spherical satellite.

Telstar-1, the first telecommunications satellite, zipping around the Earth.

I haven't done shading in my sketches for more than 25 years. Always felt like it could put the lines at risk of becoming unreadable. It is strange how we creatively change over time.

This is an oldie and it needs a bit of an overhaul. It's the precursor to the Dreamchaser, back when it was the HL-20.

My acrylic on stretched canvas artwork entitled Barren Rock, Living Light. From my Astronomy Portfolio.

I'm delighted to see that my @science.esa.int Mars Express VMC video is featured on today's #APOD 🔭

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26030...

A woman in white robes kneels on the sand before an ancient archway. She is bathed in morning light that shines through. The abbey ruins around her include a fallen statue to the left and a pair of still standing statues set adjacently in high relief at the stub of a ruined pillar. Her red hair falls in a single braid down her back. Her robes trail across the sand to the edge of a shallow pool of water. The sky on the horizon is a line of purple that eventually gives way to blue punctuated occasionally by stars. A flame encased in a glass sphere floats above the ruins, high overhead and slightly behind her.

One of the layers of meaning behind my Passage paintings is the passage from one state of mind to another…and that’s often what my mind is doing while I’m painting them.

It gets hard on my back though, if I forget to get up occasionally and stretch or walk around a bit. 5/5

A collection of 5 stylized pixel cards, from top left to bottom right: Sun, Moon, Star, Comet, Black Hole

Astra Cards

#pixelart #art #ドット絵 #ピクセルアート

In a vast chamber lined with square concrete panels, a woman grips an iron ring to hang suspended in a sideways T. A taut chain extends from the ring on a diagonal down to another metal loop where she anchors her bare feet. Gravity tugs on her fiery orange hair as she reaches down to touch a broad band of mist. The hood of her loose white top spills down as do both sleeves, one bunching at the shoulder to expose her arm—her torso prevents it from falling farther—while unobstructed the other sleeve billows loosely. There is some curvature to the wall behind her, which tapers inward at the top. Boards are tacked in staggered lines extending ladder-like up the wall. A grungy tactile delight, the place looks weathered with tattered cloth draping the concrete in places. A variety of openings are covered by rusty grates or metal plates.

THE REACH (1999)
Acrylic on Canvas - 48” x 30”

Almost a Lumen painting, in which figures are trying to work their way out of enclosed spaces and get into the light.

I used a model for this one and it was quite difficult for her to take this pose and hold it long enough to capture the gesture. 1/3

Satellite photo of the Namib Desert. The top two-thirds are covered in red, undulated sand dunes, leading down to a dry river bed, seen in bands of blue and white. Along the river bed, black dots of vegetation curl around the pointed tips of dunes.

#PPOD: Korea’s Kompsat-2 satellite captured this image over the sand seas of the Namib Desert on 7 January 2012. The blue-and-white area is the dry riverbed of the Tsauchab. Black dots of vegetation are concentrated close to the river’s main route, while salt deposits appear bright white. 🧪

Forbidden Planet premiered 70 years ago today!

If you've never seen it, don't miss this Star Trek ancestor.

Indigo Milky Way
12”x6” Oil on cradled wood panel
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Available on my website
#SciArt

Project Mars : Wernher von Braun : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Project Mars - A Technical Tale by Wernher von Braun, translated by Henry J. White, written 1948 and published in translation in 1953. A Science Fiction story...

Coincidence. Today I started to read 'Project Mars' by Wernher Von Braun. He was a surprisingly good writer. In parallel to this - a good source of reference for anyone interested is the Collier's Magazine series - Man Will Conquer Space Soon!

archive.org/details/Proj...

Graphic promoting the 2026 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship.

We're now welcoming applications for the 2026 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship. 🔭🎓💫

Aimed at supporting promising women astronomers early in their careers, it was established by the Herschel Society and RAS to celebrate Caroline’s memory.

Apply now at: herschelsociety.org.uk/caroline-her...