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Hey folks. Here's one of the animations I did showing an O'Neill Colony - basically a hollowed out cylinder in space. This one is 35km long and 9km across and spins once per minute (if I remember) to provide 1g gravity. Please repost! Spread the love! Made in #blender. #sciart #scifi

Just finishing the final Dune novel by F. Herbert. His writing style leaves a lot to be desired. Nothing is explained straightforwardly. He just leaks information and expects you to piece it together. And so much waffle and internal dialogue. It's so tedious. I'm glad I'm almost done! Is it just me?

My tribute to Dune. The whole series revolves around the madness inflicted by knowing The many paths of time. I wanted to capture that sense of feeling both in control & being controlled by all of time and space. #dune #arakis #illustration

#apod 2026-10-26 M42: The Great Nebula in Orion Image Credit: Roberto Palaia Web page: https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/2026-october-26-m42-the-great-nebula-in-orion/

#Spacetober day 23: nebula. An Earth-type planet near the Horsehead Nebula. A cloud of gas is emitting red light, with a dark, absorbent cloud, in the shape of a Horsehead, superimposed in front of it. This is a digitally modified version of a painting I did in the 1990s. #SciArt #spaceart

My first APOD (Astronomical Picture of the Day) in a long time... Seems the idea of green star is a hit. #SciArt #spaceart #Blender

If you're looking for art to accompany a press release, this is what I do. I have a PhD in astronomy and space illustration/animation is my specialty. This piece, on green white dwarfs, is one of my most recent commissions. Please don't use AI. Use an artist. Thank you. #sciart #scicomm #blender

This is simply fantastic

#Spacetober day 18: launch vehile/rocket An illustration of the Saturn 5 rocket just after take-off. The Saturn 5 launch vehicle was used during the Apollo missions that landed men safely on the Moon and returned them. Modelled and rendered in #Blender #SciArt

I'm very proud to announce that I will have a regular column in the British Interplanetary Society's ODYSSEY magazine! It's called Retrofitting the future, and two articles are already lined up for publication.

It's #Spacetober day 17: Moon. A view of the surface of the Moon during a lunar eclipse. The Sun has passed behind the Earth, illuminating its atmosphere in an eerie red and staining the lunar landscape with the light of a million sunsets. #SciArt #spaceart

In about 15 minutes I'm going to send out the next issue of my e-mail newsletter, with dark matter news, cool neutrinos, dark energy, and a book cover reveal - UK edition! You can sign up here: mackkatie.activehosted.com/f/1

Astronomers say they’ve discovered the first green star 🟢 Featuring artwork by @markgarlick.com www.cnn.com/2026/10/16/s...

warwick.ac.uk/news/pressre... Green, pink & purple: astronomers reveal the surprising true colours of white dwarf stars Warwick astronomers have shown white dwarf stars can glow in a remarkable range of colours, including the 1st star found that would appear green. Art by @markgarlick.com

Camera and volumetric spotlight pointed at each other, plus star backdrop!

Wow. This is a real supernova remnant. I thought it was an artwork at first. The spherical symmetry is fab!

#Spacetober day 9: landing Animation of SpaceX's reusable rocket Starship landing on the surface of Mars. #SciArt #spaceart #Blender

It's #Spacetober day 6, rover/robotic explorer. Exploration of Europa In the future, a probe descents into an ice chasm on Jupiter's moon, Europa. Jupiter is seen in the sky, with another moon, Io, in transit. #SciArt #spaceart

It's #Spacetober day 8, supernova. The searing explosion of a Type Ia supernova marks the end of a white dwarf's life. Its companion star, from which it was accreting gas, is ejected in the event. It will forever speed through space like a cosmic pinball. #SciArt #spaceart

It's #Spacetober day 10: Earth Illustration of a hand cradling the Earth, perhaps depicting a divine event such as Creation, or else symbolising Earth's fragility, and our responsibility for its degradation. #SciArt #spaceart

Heeeeeeeeere's Johnny!

#Spacetober day 9: landing Animation of SpaceX's reusable rocket Starship landing on the surface of Mars. #SciArt #spaceart #Blender

Ask Ethan: Can a Kevlar tether create artificial gravity in space? The cheapest way to create artificial gravity in space is to rotate two massive, tethered capsules together. But how to control for both angular momentum and Coriolis forces? bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #physics

Forgot to post these!

It's #Spacetober day 7, Venus. #SciArt #spaceart Artwork of the Venera 9 spacecraft on the surface of Venus. The Venera probes were a series of ten successful missions sent to Venus by the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Venera 9 was launched on 8 June 1975. 1/2

I'm always looking for animation or illustration gigs. Trust in @philplait.bsky.social and give me a shot. Bills don't pay themselves if you're not a billionaire

Cool stuff... (via @philplait.bsky.social)

Absolutely gorgeous...

It's #Spacetober day 8, supernova. The searing explosion of a Type Ia supernova marks the end of a white dwarf's life. Its companion star, from which it was accreting gas, is ejected in the event. It will forever speed through space like a cosmic pinball. #SciArt #spaceart

Sickening. I would be absolutely incensed if this were to happen to me.

It's #Spacetober day 6, rover/robotic explorer. Exploration of Europa In the future, a probe descents into an ice chasm on Jupiter's moon, Europa. Jupiter is seen in the sky, with another moon, Io, in transit. #SciArt #spaceart

If you encircled the Earth with a particle accelerator and used the strongest magnets available, then you'd unlock 100,000 TeV energies. But to access the Grand Unified Theory scale, you'd need a hundred million times more energy than that... bigthink.com/starts-with-...

Mark is very talented and if you need a scientific illustration there's a decent chance he has one that works. If it's an astronomy illustration, that chance is very high. 🧪

New followers, don't forget you can see all of my illustrations and animations (yes, all, more than 3000 works) at markgarlick.com. #sciart #scicomm

I'm an O'Neillian -- meaning I find Gerard O'Neill's vision of our future in space my favorite -- and @markgarlick.com's depictions of that are so beautiful!! --> bsky.app/profile/mark...

Thank you all for likes and comments. Much appreciated. But even more appreciated are RESKEETS. My income has been cut in half by AI and is only going to worse. Some of you have far more followers than I. You can make a difference by just hitting that share button. Please. And thank you.

@astrokatie.com I thought you might appreciate this external view of the hotel, Katie. The pods are the rooms, featured in the previous animation. Cheers. #blender #scifi #sciart

Artwork commissioned by Rod Pyle, Editor-in-Chief of Ad Astra, the magazine of the National Space Society. It shows a bunch of tourists on Mars. Thank you, Rod. @isaac-arthur.bsky.social #blender #sciart #scifi

Cool artistic visualization, and a good discussion in the comments below