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artistburns.bsky.social
#Spacetober_Challenge prompt is telescope. Here is my digital artwork of Jodrell Bank Mark 1A Radio Telescope. From my Circles Portfolio.
October 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
minouette.bsky.social
For the #spacetober_challenge @spacetober_challenge day 3 prompt space weather I thought I would share STEVE. 🧪🐡🔭

This is a hand-carved, hand-printed linocut print of a forest with night sky with the atmospheric optical phenomenon called STEVE: Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement, a 🧵
My Linocut of STEVE: a wide violet stripe with green aurora in vertical stripes below (picket fence aurora) against dark blue night sky with pin prick stars and Milky Way with a silhouette of evergreen forest in black at the bottom
October 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
artistburns.bsky.social
Today’s prompt from @spacetober_challenge is Space Agency. My digital artwork celebrates the 50 year anniversary of ESA. #ESA #spacetober_challenge #sciart #digitalart
October 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
artistburns.bsky.social
The prompt for today’s #spacetober_challenge is Space Station. My digital artwork celebrates the Russian MIR space station. #sciart #spacestation #digital
October 23, 2025 at 8:50 AM
artistburns.bsky.social
Prompt for today’s Spacetober Challenge is Blackhole. This is my digital draft of a blackhole. I’ll be painting it in acrylic on stretched canvas after Christmas. From my Circles Portfolio. #Spacetober_Challenge #sciart
October 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
minouette.bsky.social
She suffered a stroke but persisted & completed a PhD in Public Administration from Virginia Tech in 2018 at age 88!

#spacetober_challenge prompt Earth
#linocut #printmaking #BlackInSTEM
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October 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
artistburns.bsky.social
Jet/Plane is the prompt for today’s Spacetober Challange. This is my digital artwork of the Shuttle piggyback on a specially adapted Boeing 747. From my Circles Portfolio. #spacetober_challenge #sciart #digital
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
artistburns.bsky.social
Today’s prompt in @spacetober_challenge is Constellation. Here’s my digital take on the constellation of Leo - for no other reason than I love cats of all sizes. From my Circles Portfolio. #spacetober
October 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
drlperezdiaz.bsky.social
One for #spacetober_challenge - planets!

I’ll be sharing the behind the scenes of making these on my Instagram soon. Same username as here, if you want to be friends there 🙂

#SciArt #Spacetober #planets
October 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
minouette.bsky.social
For the #Spacetober_challenge day 23 prompt space station I made a tiny linocut print of the track of the ISS across the night sky.

#linocut #printmaking #miniprint #night #forest #spaceArt #sciArt 🧪
As described this is a very small linocut print of the night sky in blue with carved stars, Milky Way and a line across the sky and a line of silhouettes of evergreen trees in black along the bottom.
October 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
minouette.bsky.social
The #spacetober_challenge prompt is space agency, so I’m sharing this again, cause it uses NASA imagery.

Best part is that I quilted this using glow in the dark thread so there’s a glowing triangle grid on my bed.
minouette.bsky.social Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Mar 12
The #MathArtMarch prompt is on an iso grid so I thought I’d share my Space-Sierpiński Triangle-Jellyfish quilt with my block printed #fractal Sierpiński triangles (arranged of course in a Sierpiński triangle), assorted jellyfish plus digitally printed NASA space images. 🧶 #printmaking 🧵1/2
As described this is a detail shot of my Space-Sierpiński Triangle-Jellyfish quilt. This quilt is made with my block printed fabric with fractal Sierpiński triangles (arranged of course in a Sierpiński triangle) printed in red on turquoise fabric and assorted linocut jellyfish block printed in white on blue fabrics plus digitally printed NASA space images. Other triangles are in shades of green, bright raspberry and some patterned fabrics within the colour scheme. I quilted it (in the ditch) with glow-in-the-dark thread so there’s a glowing triangular net at night.⁠
October 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
minouette.bsky.social
The #Spacetober_challenge @spacetober_challenge day 4 prompt is moon so I’m sharing my Theia #linocut about the formation of our moon. 🧪🐡🔭⚒️ This 6 colour hand printed linocut print illustrates the formation of the Moon in a comic book influenced pop art style. The favoured model of Moon formation 🧵
My 6 colour linocut showing collision of Theia (here a large cratered purple sphere, only half of which remains) with the proto-Earth (swirling blue and white sphere) in a comic book Pop Art influenced style. There are zigzagging orange, yellow and white shapes like a comic book explosion at the impact site and projectiles splashing up. Theia is shown moving with wide yellow and blue stripes and the word “BANG!” In red with darkest blue outlines. The bodies are on an extremely dark blue background and in the bottom left corner is a yellow rectangle (or trapezoid) with text “4.5 Billion years ago”.
October 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
drlperezdiaz.bsky.social
One for #spacetober_challenge: Mars

I’ll post the making of and the finished papercut on Instagram! (Same username as here)

#Mars #sciart
October 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
minouette.bsky.social
For #spacetober_challenge day 11 prompt asteroid, my wee little mini #linocut asteroid

#printmaking #sciart #spaceArt #asteroid 🧪🔭
My mini linocut asteroid has a 2” x 2” printed area on a 4”x 4” cream coloured paper. The image shows an irregular silver rock on a black background with circular black outlined craters. The print is marked “1/12 Asteroid Ele Willoughby 2012”
October 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
minouette.bsky.social
For day 9 #spacetober_challenge nebula: Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in #astronomy. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 #histsci Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life & career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, 🧵
My Linocut portrait of Caroline Herschel against a starry sky with comet and 5 inset diagrams of her observations
October 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
minouette.bsky.social
For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the
Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.
October 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
minouette.bsky.social
For the #spacetober_challenge day 18 prompt: Mars/Mars mission: This is a mini hand-pulled linocut 7” x 5”of Opportunity the Martian Rover. 🧪🐡🔭The print is in a gradient of rusty orange &black on ivory Japanese washi paper. Launched July 8, 2003, Opportunity (Oppie to his fans) was active on Mars 🧵
My small 7” x 5” Opportunity the Martian Rover. The print is in a gradient of rusty orange and black on ivory Japanese washi paper.
October 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
minouette.bsky.social
Somehow we’ve almost made it to October! I’m going to be doing the #Spacetober challenge again, hosted by @spacetober_challenge on IG.

If you want to share space science and astronomy #sciart, join in or follow along! 🎢🔭🧪
A poster for the 2026 Spacetober Challenge lists 31 prompts: Spacetober 2026 1 liftoff 2 galaxy 3 Artemis II/moon joy 4 Mercury 5 space station 6 rover/robotic explorer 7 Venus 8 supernova 9 landing 10 Earth 11 crew or cargo spacecraft 12 Roman space telescope 13 Mars 14 space history 15 crew/astronaut 16 Jupiter 17 moon 18 launch vehicle/rocket 19 Saturn 20 aeronautics 21 Artemis III 22 Uranus 23 Nebula 24 Dragonfly (mission to Titan) 25 Neptune 26 star/sun 27 engine(s) 28 Pluto 29 missions 30 eclipse 31 future
September 30, 2026 at 7:02 PM
minouette.bsky.social
For the #Spacetober_challenge day 5 prompt Voyager I’m sharing my mini #linocut of Neptune for the Voyager program which sent two interstellar probes to the outer planets.

#printmaking #planet #Neptune #sciart
This is a mini print of Neptune! This hand-carved, hand-printed linocut is just 5” x 8” (12.7 cm x 20.3 cm) and shows Neptune, in blue and white with two fine rings against a black background, with the word and symbol for Neptune.
October 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
artistburns.bsky.social
@spacetober_challenge. Today’s prompt is Nebula. I recreated the Dumbbell Nebula using Adobe Fresco. Not the easiest one I could have picked, but at least I’ve made myself an excellent star field that can be reused as an asset in future digital images. #Spacetober #space #nebula #digitalart #sciart
October 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
artistburns.bsky.social
Today’s prompt in @spacetober_challenge is Star. I thought I’d share a digital composition that I ve created and use as part of my Sciart & science art workshop resources. Science outreach is one of my passions - the sharing of science knowledge through fun and creativity. #Spacetober #Sciart
October 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
blueappaloosa.bsky.social
SciArtSeptember - @lizlagomorph.bsky.social‬
Invertober - @fossilforager.bsky.social‬
Spacetober – @spacetober_challenge on Instagram
SciCommInk - @scicomm.letters on Twitter
Birdtober - @aholmesartstudio on Instagram (I’ve seen other people post lists too)
ArchInk - @blacktrowel.bsky.social‬
June 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
minouette.bsky.social
For day 12 of #spacetober_challenge prompt eclipse: #mathematician & #astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) and her calculated path of the solar eclipse of 1764. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🧮🔭 #histsci She also worked with Alexis Clairaut & Jérôme Lalande to precisely calculate the date of return of Halley’s Comet, 🧵
My linocut print of mathematician & astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723-1788) in a vertical gradient (bottom to top) of bright pink to lavender on white paper. She wears a wig and gown and the portrait is from the chest to head. Her 12 diagrams of the phases of the annular the solar eclipse of 1764 as viewed from Paris appear across her shoulders. Behind her head in green is her map of the path of the eclipse across Europe.
October 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
minouette.bsky.social
For #spacetober_challenge day 15 prompt blackhole: my 6” x 8” mono print, built up with layers of ink on a gel plate of a Super Massive Blackholes (SMBH) with relativistic jets.

#printmaking #gelPlatePrinting #blackhole #astronomy #spaceArt #sciart 🧪

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My mono print built up with layers of ink on a gel plate of a Super Massive Blackhole (SMBH) with relativistic jets. It looks like a very dark black half-sphere with flattened bulge under it, surrounded by swirling reds and oranges in a wide ring, with two pale blue narrow cones going up and down (the jets) against the black of space.
October 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
minouette.bsky.social
For Day 21 of #spacetober_challenge prompt star: trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭#histsci 🧵
My linocut of Annie Jump Cannon shows her in a 3/4 profile view wearing a shirt with a lace collar and her hair up. She is printed in a gradient of violet at the bottom to green at the top, printed on white 11” x 14” paper. The background is printed in a gradient (left to right) of dark blue, light blue, yellow, pale yellow, pale orange, orange and red. The background block excludes her silhouette of shoulder and head with the exception of a smattering of small dots in a swath from upper left to lower right (which extends to white spots on the coloured background). Also along the bottom are a series of circles of decreasing size (left to right, blue through red) labelled O, B, A, F, G, K, M. There’s a axis line along the bottom with 6 tick marks. Vertically from top to bottom along the left side are 15-, 10-, 5-, 0, 5, 20, 15.
October 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM