Hubble brings you a scene from the N159 star-forming complex, with thick hydrogen clouds forming ridges, bubbles, and filaments.  Baby stars are beginning to shine within these clouds 👶 Read more 👉 https://esahubble.org/images/potw2552a/ 🔭

BIG new batch of images sent back by Perseverance! Took some work, and my laptop struggled, but what a wonderful view... Look at those beautiful dust dunes, sculpted by Mars' icy winds... As they say, "Welcome to my world..." ;-) Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/S Atkinson

I didn’t have to work today, but I just love painting so much & couldn’t help myself. Very close to finishing the mini pinball piece! #ArtAdventCalendar

I love when people compliment my art! Though sometimes I get some weirdos who speak to me like I’m a teenage girl. Sir 🖐️ please stop infantilizing me, I am an adult woman. My AuDHD ass has to screenshot & message my friends to ask “is this person being weird or is it me?” 9/10 times it’s not me. 😬

Acanthostrongylophora sponge & some friends recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CX3...

🏝️ Pink Lemonade Nebula 🩷⭐✨ Octopus sculpture 🐙 ✨ Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨 #BlueSkyArtShow #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #InverteFest #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

The great part about being in between Christmas and new years is that I am *entirely* left to my own devices, which means, YEP, i'm doodling again. Tonight we're doing pigeons and possums doing people poses. Practicing some silly poses for the ol' book C'mere www.twitch.tv/sarahmackatt...

I just made this! I’ve never done linocut before. It’s nothing fancy & not that good yet, but it was fun 😌

It was not looking good when I woke up. Pouring rain. I hopped in my car anyway. As the sun rose, the clouds cleared, and my Christmas birding tradition was saved! It was a beautiful morning, and I was lucky enough to see 3 bobcats! Happy Holidays 🦜

Behold! My Solar System Christmas tree 🎄 Created 5 years ago, it’s a black tree with hand painted ornaments. Each year I added something new—asteroids from clay, moon ornaments, tree skirt, more stars, and even made it rotate. One year it was my favorite exoplanetary system, TRAPPIST-1. 🔭🧪🐡

#ArtAdventCalendar day 23 Milky Way and Andromeda enjoy a dance of death. They're moving towards each other and will begin to merge in a few billion years. Crikey!

For #artAdventCalendar day 21 evening, a not odd but old piece. Ice Falls 22×28 56×71cm Oil on Canvas 1992

A Baja Blast counts as space art, right?? #ArtAdventCalendar

You guys, right after I snapped this pic, I looked outside and a hummingbird flew right up to my window. I think she approves! Not finished yet btw. Needed another layer on the background first. That will help me judge tones for the final details. #ArtAdventCalendar

My Christmas tradition is quite different from most. I wake up and go birding (bird watching) then I play video games. Now it’s supposed to rain 😫

Adventure with your cat through the depths of the universe 🌌

Another day of my husband making me a cute little pancake and a gigantic one for himself lol

Lately I’m exploring my artistic side as a separate entity from my scientist side. Most of my paintings combine both, and sometimes there is pressure that my art needs to teach. I’m having a great time creating space art that’s just…fun! First layer on the star candy today (took about ~3 hours).

It’s just a comet, you dinguses

It took the full power of my last remaining brain cell today to paint the scoring numbers. Gave the background a first layer, too. Once everything dries I can finish the final details & will paint deez pinballs. 🕹️

I did not set up my Solar System Christmas tree this year 😕. Just was not feeling it. But if you’re nice to me, I’ll share pictures of it across the years next week!

Mini pinball game update. Today I added the first layer on the scoopy things (idk what they’re called). Tomorrow I’ll add the scoring numbers. Only a few things left + the background. Almost finished! #ArtAdventCalendar

1/3 Here is one of several flyovers our digital terrain model group created from a DTM of our 100,000th observation of Mars!

I showed up to my doctor’s appointment today and everything was gone! Lights off, no furniture, all the doors open. Should have taken a selfie standing in the empty office confused lmao. They moved locations & forgot to tell me. Oops! It all worked out though, did my appt on the phone. silly day 😆

me: there’s a meteor shower! husband: where? me: in the sky husband: 😑😑😑 no like which direction

Okay hear me out. I am a science artist accustomed to providing a description of the physics behind my paintings. Lately, I’ve been painting random space-inspired objects, too. It’s actually been kinda nice not needing to explain my art lol. I can just be like LOOK!

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 13, one from my 2018 Turbulent Skies Project. I Can See It…With My Imagination 44x60 112×152cm Oil on Canvas 2018

Late-year academic push nearly over, so ready to get back to making these guys 🛠️

anyone care for a game of 70s mini pinball?

Space artists: don’t forget to submit your work to The Art of Planetary Science exhibition by December 31st! The event is held in Tucson. Anyone can submit—all levels & types of human-made art. I’ll be submitting and attending again. 🐡🔭🧪 More details here: lpl.arizona.edu/art

I went to dinner with a friend. Ordered a margarita. The woman asked for my ID. I presented it to her and she audibly gasped. “I knew you were over 21, but you do not look your age!” I will be riding this high for at least a month, thank you kind woman at Calle Tepa restaurant.

a moment for the reflections & letters 🤌

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💫✨ Tarak the Nebula Octopus 🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨 #ArtAdventCalendar 🦑🐡

pinball game progress 🚀

just going to record a little clip *proceeds to block entire camera with my body*

I finally had to give in and upgrade my dying iPhone 12. I need a functioning phone & camera for art business stuff obviously. Put a case on the new phone & WHY do the sides feel like an olympic bobsled?! So slick. This thing is going to fly out of my hands 😅

OMG! We already sold half of the Mars Rover jewelry pieces!! In the first 15 minutes! 😭😭😭 Can't believe it. So amazing! What a fantastic collaboration with my friend @amyraehill.bsky.social If you want to grab one of these pieces, check them out here: sciencesocks.co/collections/... 🧪🐡🎨🔭

Today's the day! Put our heart and soul into these lil guys. Find a Mars friend to wear around your neck today at 12pm PST / 3pm EST Previews of each: sciencesocks.co/pages/amy-ra... #sciart @sciencesocks.bsky.social

On a quest to create space art in different materials. This will be a mini pinball game! #ArtAdventCalendar

10 scientific truths that somehow became unpopular in 2025 Scientific truths exist independently of public opinion. But when we disbelieve them, we embrace misinformation instead, and that harms more than most of us realize. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #science #physics #misinformation

Space-inspired crystal paintings are complete! Are you on team ⭐️ or team 🌙? #ArtAdventCalendar

My favorite moon (makes sense as someone who studied planetary atmospheres 😌)

Mars Rover Jewelry coming this Wednesday Dec 10th, 12pm PT ✨ A collaboration with my good friend @sciencesocks.bsky.social who turned the pendants into jewelry! To join our mailing list for this project: sciencesocks.co/pages/amy-ra...

holy forking shirt balls it’s here

It is my absolute favorite thing when someone compliments my art! Sometimes people will attempt to be cheeky for the sake of debate/discussion, but that unsolicited behavior is more insufferable than enjoyable.

You probably have no idea what I’m painting here. It looks weird. But eventually, it will be an awesome representation of how we combine telescope data to better understand the universe! Cat’s Paw Nebula 🐾 rectangles = infrared, JWST black & white = visible light, Hubble (lower resolution)

My expertise and art is astro/planetary related, but I am a huge bird nerd too! I occasionally paint them, like this little Costa’s hummingbird in my yard. My business name was also inspired by a bird—Cyanocitta stelleri, the Steller’s Jay. #ArtAdventCalendar

Nothing like chillin’ on the couch & getting your ass kicked by an asthma attack for no reason 💀

December desert blooms 🌺