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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 11h

Today's #spacetoberchallenge is "Propulsion". I stopped designing SpaceX-related patches earlier this year, but I would be remiss in not recognizing the engineering behind Starship Super Heavy and the Raptor engines. I did these patches in 2021 and 2023.

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Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 8h

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 8: Propulsion

The RS-25 liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine, once used by NASA's Space Shuttle Orbiter, is now used by the Space Launch System's core stage. #Spacetober

A full page view of my drawings to date, with the added RS-25 engine to the lower left side.

A close-up of the black and white drawing of the RS-25 engine

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 2h

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 8: Propulsion

Based on a diagram from the NASA Gemini program showing the spacecraft responses to orbit attitude control thrust.

#sciart #spaceart #spacecraft

Illustration of the Gemini spacecraft responses to orbit attitude control thrust in blue orange and green. On a black background scattered with white four point stars.

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Kristin Pratt @prattkristin.bsky.social · 13h

Boosting! #SciArt #Spacetober #SpaceArt

Cathrin Machin Space Art @cathrinmachin.bsky.social · 13h

Can you help?… I’m trying to find my people

I know there’s more space fans here… just not sure how to reach you

Feels weird to ask, but would you give me a signal boost by hitting share?

If you’re new… Hi I’m Cat, I make pretty picture of space 🥹 let’s connect if you like weird space art

Woman standing next to large artwork on an easel. The painting is of a wormhole with gravitational lensing that shows stars and galaxies are warped around a central point.

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Sandra | Atelier Hibou 🦉 @atelierhibou-ch.bsky.social · 15h

#Spacetober Day 3 - #SpaceWeather

#SciArt #SpaceArt #artYear #kleineKunstKlasse #watercolor #art #SpacetoberChallenge

Small painting of a sun with some sun storms. Glitter golden watercolor paint on black paper.

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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 1d

Per my daughter's request, the #Inktober #invertober2025 #SpacetoberChallenge mashup now includes #OC_tober 😁
I'm actually ridiculously proud of this one 🌊🧑‍🚀

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₊❅*̩❆[YULETIDE]❆*̩❅₊ @gnollified.bsky.social · 16h

d1 // launch

#SpacetoberChallenge

A simple two-stage rocket crosses þe face of þe Moon as it lifts off.

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Jackie Burns @artistburns.bsky.social · 22h

Spacetober Challange - Propulsion. Mach diamonds from the 7 BE-4 engines of New Glenn, Blue Origin's successful ascent to space. The mission named "So You're Telling Me There's a Chance" was the first flight of the company's heavy-lift rocket. Digital artwork from my Circles Portfolio. #Spacetober

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Mindy, the Crafty Physicist @craftyphysicist.bsky.social · 19h

Inktober Day 8: Reckless (and randomly Spacetober Day 8: Propulsion)

#inktober #inktober2025 #inktoberreckless #inktoberrobots @inktober #spacetober #spacetoberchallenge #spacetober2025

Drawing of a robot joyriding on a retro looking rocket (the robot's hands are raised in excitement as it sticks its head and torso out of the rocket's window.)

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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 1d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 8: Propulsion

#sciart #spaceart #artchallenge

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 18h

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.

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 16h

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 8: Propulsion

#sciart #spaceart #artchallenge

Orange gradient background with the words “day 8: propulsion” in large black text at the center

Graphic showing the Spacetober challenge prompt list for 2025. The background is an orange gradient with a black box on top, with the number of each day and the corresponding prompt for each in white text on top. 1: Launch, 2: Planet(s), 3: Space Weather, 4: Moon, 5: Voyager, 6: Constellation, and 7: Space Agency are crossed out. 8: Propulsion, 9: Nebula, 10: Artemis II, 11: Asteroid, 12: Eclipse, 13: Near or Deep Space Network, 14: Spacecraft, 15: Black Hole, 16: Parachute, 17: Historic Person(s), 18: Mars/Mars Mission, 19: Crew Capsule, 20: Telescope, 21: Star, 22: Lunar Landing, 23: Space Station, 24: Jet/Plane, 25: Historic Mission(s), 26: Earth, 27: Habitat, 28: Astronaut/Cosmonaut, 29: Orbit, 30: Galaxy, 31: Future

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Elke Stangl (elkement) @elkement.art · 17h

Flying through the "spaceport" of my diffraction art!

Intensity of diffracted light for different wavelengths.

#SciArt #MathArt #PhysicsArt

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!! 😊

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 1d

Today's #spacetoberchallenge subject is "Space Agency". This patch commemorates a rare convergence of three space agency probes on Mars in the same month in 2021: NASA, China National Space Administration and the UAE Space Agency. I hope such convergences are more commonplace in the future.

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 1d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 7: Space Agency

Bringing back this design from 2022 with what I feel like is a very important addition, especially in these times. Words that define what I’ve always understood the mission of NASA to be. Exploration & science for the benefit of all.

#sciart #spaceart #NASA

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Joe Creighton 🇨🇦 @notjoecreighton.bsky.social · 1d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 7: Space Agency

I’ve always liked the spacey design of the European Space Agency’s logo #Spacetober

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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 1d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 7: Space Agency. This is fairly new and clearly my most official #spaceagency related design.
#sciart #spaceart #artchallenge #NASA

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, those were just for aesthetic. I originally planned on putting either the names or more representational illustrations of each constellation there, but I ran out of time.

I’ll probably come back to this one after the month is over and refine it more.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday to Danish #physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962). 🧪🐡🎢 #histsci One of his most famous contributions to quantum mechanics was the Bohr-Rutherford model of the atom. Bohr is shown next to the Bohr model of the Hydrogen atom (all the concentric circles are actually at the appropriate spacing

My linocut of Niels Bohr with the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom and Balmer series of spectral lines. Bohr is printed in blue-grey and wearing a suit. Concentric rings of silver represent energy levels in hydrogen and overlap his head. Squiggly lines go between pairs of silver orbits and match the colours of the line spectra printed below him (left to right: red, cyan, blue and violet. H-alpha is red and caused by a jump from the 3rd to 2nd orbit; H-beta is cyan and caused by a jump from the 4th to 2nd orbit; H-gamma is indigo and caused by a jump from the 5th to 2nd orbit; and H-delta is violet and caused by a jump from the 6th to 2nd orbit.

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 1d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 7: Space Agency

#sciart #spaceart #artchallenge

Orange gradient background with the words “day 7: space agency” in large black text at the center

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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 2d

A quick doodle mashup today for #Inktober #Invertober2025 #SpacetoberChallenge

Small pen on paper drawing of a moth with its wings folded. The left wing has two piercings. The dark parts of both wings are decorated with patterns like constellations in a night sky. You know, if you squint.

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 2d

Constellations of the Zodiac 🌌

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 6: Constellation

#sciart #spaceart #zodiacart

Illustration of the various constellations of each zodiac sign arranged in order around an illustration of the sun and some stars. The illustration is done in pink, orange, green, black, and white with a black border.

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Chop Shop Studio 🇺🇸+🇺🇦 @chopshopstore.bsky.social · 2d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 2: Planets. I just completed the new @planetarysociety.bsky.social membership shirt, but why not a shout out there to the outgoing membership design.

#sciart #spaceart #artchallenge

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Danielle Rose Baker 🚀 @planetaryartist.com · 2d

#SpacetoberChallenge day 6: #Constellation - just a quick rendering in pencil of my oldest celestial friend, the Big Dipper.

#SciArt #illustration #SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #AstroArt #Spacetober

A pencil sketch of the seven stars composing the Big Dipper, with lines connecting the constellation, in a chubby square lavender sketchbook. A gray Blackwing 602 pencil lies diagonally above the drawing.

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