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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 3d

Yesss! Painting/glazing is in progress...👀

Kristin Pratt @prattkristin.bsky.social · 3d

Was just thinking about these today…can’t wait to see the next steps and the final results!

Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 15d

Ceramic jewelry update ✨

Bisque firing is complete. A little less glamorous than glaze firing but still pretty cool!

In case you missed it, @sciencesocks.bsky.social and I are working on this project together! Sign up here to stay in the loop:

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 6d

It's #Spacetober so I'll try to keep it coming with Amy Rae Hill's Greatest Hits™️

Collage of pottery featuring a tea set with a moonlit desert design, a watering can with a blue green nebula, cups with different captures of Venus, a yarn bowl with an astronaut chasing a tether that leads to the yarn feed, and a vase featuring the Milky Way over Mt Rainier.

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 14d

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

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, 7: Space Agency, 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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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 7d

Launch
#SpacetoberChallenge
#SciArt

(Commission from years ago!)

Plate featuring rocket launch firing off by the water and into the night sky.

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 11d

I've been on BlueSky for exactly two years today. I'm having a brilliant time. Thank you for the follows, likes, reposts and interactions. Here's a pic I took of the great Orion Nebula, also two years ago. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

The Orion Nebula at centre. Many star dots around it on a dark background.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 15d

Ceramic jewelry update ✨

Bisque firing is complete. A little less glamorous than glaze firing but still pretty cool!

In case you missed it, @sciencesocks.bsky.social and I are working on this project together! Sign up here to stay in the loop:

sciencesocks.co/pages/amy-ra...

Inside of kiln showing several rows of clay rectangular pendants.

Inside of kiln showing several rows of bisque rectangular pendants.

Clay rectangular pendants laid out on a marble placemat.

Bisque rectangular pendants laid out on a marble placemat. Strips of paper with jagged edges lay across them.

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 14d

Hope you have a speedy recovery Glendon!

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 15d

So exciting to see the progress, Amy 🤩🔥🔥🔥

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 17d

The world's largest neutrino detector has just begun operations in Jiangmen, China. 🧪🔭

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This photo taken on Dec. 16, 2024 shows the central detector of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in Jiangmen, south China's Guangdong Province. The world's largest transparent spherical detector began operation in China on Tuesday, making it the world's first operational ultra-large scientific facility dedicated to neutrino research with ultra-high precision. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 18d

The redo of the Siren Tea Set, a teapot and mug belonging to a siren who sinks men and their ships.

Teapot and mug featuring a weathered floral design with hand-painted netting draped over the surface and a blue ring octopus crawling out from the top of each.

Teapot featuring a weathered floral design with hand-painted netting draped over the surface and a blue ring octopus crawling out from the top of each. Detail of octopus.

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 19d

Only one more! Stop teasing me 😂😂😂

Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 19d

Friends, I need your help! We need one final push for the ScienceSocks restock!

Discounted sock bundles have been added! 😎

Grab some here:
sciencesocks.co/prod...

Please repost or share this with anyone who needs cool #eclipse, #JWST, #MarsRover or #Lucy socks 🙏

🐡🔭🧪🎨

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Sarah Lewin Frasier @sarahexplains.bsky.social · 19d

We've reached 6,000 confirmed exoplanets! I talked with @aussiastronomer.bsky.social about where things go from here. (A great graphic by @unamandita.bsky.social visualizes the amazing jumps in planet finds since the first ones were confirmed in the 1990s.)

Want to Get Away? NASA Now Offers More Than 6,000 Alien Worlds to Daydream About

It’s a crowded galaxy, the latest exoplanet tally shows

www.scientificamerican.com

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 19d

Friends, I need your help! We need one final push for the ScienceSocks restock!

Discounted sock bundles have been added! 😎

Grab some here:
sciencesocks.co/prod...

Please repost or share this with anyone who needs cool #eclipse, #JWST, #MarsRover or #Lucy socks 🙏

🐡🔭🧪🎨

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 19d

Just need 3 more pairs! Let's go 🤩

Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 19d

Friends, I need your help! We need one final push for the ScienceSocks restock!

Discounted sock bundles have been added! 😎

Grab some here:
sciencesocks.co/prod...

Please repost or share this with anyone who needs cool #eclipse, #JWST, #MarsRover or #Lucy socks 🙏

🐡🔭🧪🎨

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 19d

Friends, I need your help! We need one final push for the ScienceSocks restock!

Discounted sock bundles have been added! 😎

Grab some here:
sciencesocks.co/prod...

Please repost or share this with anyone who needs cool #eclipse, #JWST, #MarsRover or #Lucy socks 🙏

🐡🔭🧪🎨

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 21d

[On the bench today ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes]

Mars Curiosity Rover wheel pendant necklace in sterling silver. Including the hidden Morse code message 😎

🔭🧪🐡🎨

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Dr. Lisa Locke 🇨🇦 @janskygirl.bsky.social · 21d

Yay Morse code secrets!

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 21d

Omg 🤣🤣🤣

Be Jay, Do Crimes @templinjay.bsky.social · 21d

When I learned that the JPL crew had done that, I laughed so hard I needed my inhaler.

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 21d

Sure does 😎

wisdom-flakcannon.bsky.social @wisdom-flakcannon.bsky.social · 21d

Does it say JPL?

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 21d

[On the bench today ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes]

Mars Curiosity Rover wheel pendant necklace in sterling silver. Including the hidden Morse code message 😎

🔭🧪🐡🎨

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 22d

Beautiful new EHT black hole images 🤩

Event Horizon Telescope @ehtelescope.bsky.social · 22d

Groundbreaking new image! The EHT reveals the dynamic environment around black hole M87*.

The 2021 image shows a distinct shift in polarization patterns, tracing changes in magnetic fields near the event horizon.

eventhorizontelescope.org/new-eht-imag...

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 23d

Both iron-nickel type meteorites that produce those patterns. I think they are just so cool!

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you for sharing! And you are correct that it reminds you of that. It's the same gorgeous Widmanstätten patterns in those photos that are in my jewelry 🤩

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 26d

The res(t)ock is 73% funded! ✨

We're so close to bringing back 5 designs 🤩

You can still pre-order a pair here:
sciencesocks.co/collections/...

The Great Sock Res(t)ock

Important: this is a pre-order. Once the funding goal is reached, all five sock styles will be restocked! Socks are expected to ship mid-October. Help us restock five sock designs! We're getting rea...

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 26d

Obsessed with the this eclipse art 🤩

Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 26d

Process of the commission prize for K'Andra, winner of the @blackinastro.bsky.social Art Contest!
#sciart

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