From high-impact weather events to stratus clouds dancing over the open ocean, this year was filled with impressive satellite imagery. We look back on the most compelling satellite views of 2025. 1) Mesovortices slosh within Hurricane Melissa’s ferocious eye (October 8).

There were no good photos of old Breath Savers packaging so a Wikipedia editor created this digital illustration. I'm not EXACTLY sure why the background is this random dwarf planet but I think I quite like it

My favourites from today are: hot Jupiter companion occurrence rate arxiv.org/abs/2601.13302, primodial superearth population arxiv.org/abs/2601.13480, clouds on T/Y dwarfs arxiv.org/abs/2601.12575, and a visit to HD 166620 arxiv.org/abs/2601.11853

Inspired by my conversation with @gnollified.bsky.social elsewhere, I decided to draw a young Triton with thick atmosphere...took it down, and corrected it. Presenting version 2! bsky.app/profile/gnol... #art #astronomy #space #SolarSystem #planet #moon #Triton #Neptune

hey sorry ive been dead but ive been reading "neptune and triton", more specifically þe paper (chapter?) abt triton's capture and evolution. it mentions þe possibility of what is effectively a supercritical atmosphere of >100 bars of CH4/CO/N2 atop a hot sea of NH3/H2O. what þe fuck.????????????????

Pluto - Approximate True Color - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/yNoRBQ

A study on drawing a hot Jupiter's nightside. The dayside is overexposed. The nightside is pinkish from the combination of blackbody radiation and absorption from Na/K/H2O, similar to brown dwarfs. #art #astronomy #space #planet #exoplanet #HotJupiter

d1 // launch #SpacetoberChallenge

2015-2024 😊📹 bsky.app/profile/kosm...

My new color photographic map of Pluto is now online. Full resolution image version (~322Mpix) is available on Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/10958... PDF version (~73MB) is available here: drive.google.com/file/d/1EW-x... 🧵 1/5

It’s almost time for the 2025 edition of the #SpacetoberChallenge! I haven’t created an account for the challenge here on this app yet, but please still share your art here with the hashtag. I would love to see all your cosmic creations! 🧡 #SciArt #SpaceArt

pondering abt how even þough erupting cryovolcanos wouldn't have any þermal danger, ejecta velocities might mean jumping into one shreds u into a fine mist (especially on airless worlds like enceladus)

North Peary, the "Anthill Kingdom", filters polar ice melt through the ceilings of its enormous, terraformed lava tube chambers, falling as gentle rain. Two steam locomotives lashed to a long train of goods fly past; they are fueled by charcoal from Peary's vast, grown forests.

Whoa, the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS clearly has a tail now! A raw image taken minutes ago with the GMOS instrument on Gemini South and shared live during the Shadow the Scientists event - I raised the contrast slightly.

Giant planets orbiting red dwarfs are uncommon, as are hot Neptunes ("Neptunian desert"), as are exoplanets in polar orbits. On this painting, the host star "observes" its strange planet through a massive polar dark spot. [1/9] of the "art research" thread on TOI-3884 and "red" dwarfs in general.

giving a shot at painting tropical cyclone radar imagery

rendezvous #spaceart

some concept art for a ksp planet mod i may or may not end up making in the future

sona

TOI-3884 b is a planet around an M dwarf whose transits show persistent spot crossings. We show that the star's rotational and spot-crossing variations can be modeled with a misaligned planet transiting a large polar spot (confirming last week's results from Mori et al.) arxiv.org/abs/2506.11998

guide to the planetary system of Proxima Centauri, 2598 revision

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed Jupiter’s aurora. The observations help astronomers better understand how Jupiter’s upper atmosphere is heated & cooled, and may prove useful to our #ESAJuice mission, en route to the gas giant. Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪

Space art by Luděk Pešek, Ron Miller x 2, Don Dixon

STS-1 #art #digitalart #drawing #painting #spaceart #rocket #space

#painting #clouds #sky #art #digitalart

The cantaloupe terrain of Triton, moon of Neptune, seen from Voyager 2 at about 360 meters/pixel in 1989. These two frames constitute humanity's highest resolution views of Triton, although the lower frame is somewhat smeared (I have corrected this as much as possible).

Ooh! NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Donaldjohanson yesterday. They just released the images. Look at that cool space potato! 🔭🧪🥔 science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

introducing NDÂZIMA--a fictional dwarf planet, it once resembled Pluto and Makemake before being sent inward, where it lost its outer icy layer. What remains is a vast crust of salt and graphite atop a rocky, Ceres-like core. for a personal worldbuilding project of mine :3 #Spaceart

Around a red dwarf revolves a trio of planets--Shilla, Koryo, and Paekche. My take on þe compact Gliese/GJ 581 system, which hosts two ice giants and one super-terrestrial! As þe IAU has yet to name 'em, I've gone wiþ my own so far. Earþ is þe white outlined circle at top. #spaceart

2 weeks away from NASA Lucy's flyby of asteroid Donaldjohanson! I made this quick infographic on what to expect from the highest-resolution images from the flyby. I'm looking forward to seeing what this weird asteroid will look like up close! :D 🔭🧪

What does it look like when you fly through Saturn's system of 274 moons? Here's a quick flyby simulation in @celestiaproject.bsky.social to show the scale of Saturn's moon system. With the sheer number of outer moons, you often find them passing within a few million miles from each other.🧪🔭

I spent almost 2 hours painstakingly copying the orbits of all 128 Saturnian moons from the announcement MPEC and reformatting them for visualization... Behold, here are the orbits of ALL 128 MOONS OF SATURN. This isn't just a moon system—it's a literal asteroid belt around Saturn! 🧪🔭☄️

a flyby probe swings past þe egg-shaped dwarf plant Quaoar and its inner ring. the probe passes by a tiny rubbly inner ring shepherd herding a dense (but still faint!) ring arc þat wasn't þere before,,,,,

Lake "Dawn Chorus" Järvinen here to cheer you up #dawnchorusvn

relearning

high Mangala orbit, 7998 A.D. (M.Y. 399)

Originally posted on my Tumblr on 8 Sep 2023: My artwork of the #DARTMission impact on asteroid moon Dimorphos, finished before the mission's 1-year anniversary! Handpainted in Krita over 1 week. #astroart #spaceart #sciart @asrivkin.bsky.social hope you see it :3 www.tumblr.com/arbodox/7279...

tried a more tropical storm-ey look

experimenting w hurricanes in mspaint

I finally got Clip Studio Paint and decided to baptize it with a Qibli drawing! It's really weird getting used to a new art program but this was super fun to make :D #qibli #qibliwof #wingsoffire #digitalart #art #dragon #woffanart #sandwing

#furry #furryart #furryref #fursona #crow #corvid My ref sheet ... 1/2 ?

sostrata.neocities.org/starchat.html Something very silly I just made

since I haven't been able to do much lately, here's an old favorite of mine

stratus fireteam during training with commander type wielding 63mm recoilless repeating rifle

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salutations.