Mark Stewart

"Have spacesuit, will travel." Remembering Walter Koenig: my tribute here: lnkd.in/p/eJP__Wwi @startrekstarships.com @thespaceshipper.com @trekcore.com @georgetakei.bsky.social @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @wilwheaton.net #StarTrek #Odyssey @markgarlick.com @nick-stevens.com @sculptedreef.com

My first experiment with 3d camera tracking in Lightwave! It's very slow to build, but even at low quality settings the results are clean. (And you only build once). I then added the floating head of Yuri Gagarin. (And the base picks up reflections!)

“You maniacs! You blew it up!” More than half a century after Planet of the Apes, that final scene still has the power to shock. Flood Waters Down - a near-future #climate & #AI thriller. Different apocalypse. Same uncomfortable question: did we see it coming and carry on anyway? #Booksky #film

Born in Derby. Back with a book! I’m bringing my climate thriller, Flood Waters Down, to Derby Book Festival’s Book & Craft Market on Sat 7 Nov. Come and chat, browse or pick up a signed copy. Derby Market Hall | 10.30am-4pm | Free entry @derbyshireuk.bsky.social #DerbyBookFestival #Booksky

1925, Flight to the Moon.

Rocks on Mars, photographed today.

The "Odyssey" Recap—is dystopian fiction becoming a reality? As the first storms of the year inundate the UK with rain, find out more as we revisit our review of Clive Simpson's novel "Flood Waters Down": lnkd.in/p/eEs9UtAu @simpsonclive.bsky.social #climatecrisis #climatefiction #Odyssey

Always an essential read to keep up with the latest developments in the space sector. Rob's editorials are a highlight. Recommended. @nick-stevens.com @markgarlick.com #space #spaceexploration #BIS #Odyssey #spaceflight

Often described as a prophet or a visionary or a serious writer. Possibly the best novelist this country has produced, though his writing owes a lot to his formative years in Singapore. Great book covers!

Thrilled to have an article in this issue!

I'm back from an interesting few days at #IAC2026 in Antalya, Turkiye, representing ROOM Space Journal. Always a good space event & met a lot of interesting people, including Ameca - a humanoid robot who could hold a decent conversation in multiple languages. Scary, piercing eyes though!

ROOM Space Journal at IAC 2026 in Antalya, Turkiye. asgardia.space/en/news/ROOM... #iac2026 #iafastro #Asgardia

Massive thanks to Clive Simpson and the editorial team at ROOM Space Journal for including my article in the latest issue (𝘉𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘍𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 – 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘛𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘜𝘴). room.eu.com @simpsonclive.bsky.social @roomspacejournal.bsky.social #space #spaceexploration #science #magazines

The Andromeda Galaxy, low in the sky over New South Wales, Australia.

A major problem I have with every film/TV/comics adaptation of Dune is that none of them look much like Bruce Pennington’s classic 1970s paperback covers of Frank Herbert’s novels. Pennington’s were the only visual take on Dune I came across in my early & impressionable teens. They’re my head canon.

Remembering Captain Dallas: my tribute to Tom Skerritt here: lnkd.in/p/eQuhTcBR @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @nick-stevens.com @markgarlick.com @bsfa.bsky.social #SCI-FI #Odyssey @iaaa.org #Alien @scifiart.bsky.social @sfwa.bsky.social @sffoundation.bsky.social @scifireader.bsky.social

Goodbye, Captain Dallas. "So I went to see The Duellists. And it was a masterpiece. I mean, I have never seen a picture that captured so much production value as The Duellists. Magnificent-looking film, a painting from beginning to end. So I had to do Alien at that point.” Tom Skerritt was 93.

🔭 The First Green Star, WD J1330+6435 Credit & Copyright: Mark A. Garlick/University of Warwick ap261022

We’re adding four original paintings to the shop with the newsletter this weekend. A preview is now available for our paid subscribers: theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/original-a...

Star formation has been steadily declining in the Andromeda galaxy according to decades of research with Hubble. Catch up on other News from the Universe you may have missed on ViewSpace: https://viewspace.org/video_library?tags=1637

Integrated Interplanetary Vehicle flying over Venus. This is my design for a joint US-Soviet spacecraft for missions to Venus or Mars. (Made with Blender. Background: edited NASA public domain picture.)

Spin of Yuri Gagarin's head in Anaglyph 3d.

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Gagarin bust now ready to use...

#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

"Enzmann Starships" Interstellar concept. Model by @nick-stevens.com Rendered in #Lightwave3d (LW11.6.3 ) I think this will be my next LW 2026 conversion project. Working with that huge reflective ball of frozen deuterium is going to be the challenge.

My microblog 𝘖𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵 revisits a famous meeting between Arthur C. Clarke, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien: a contest of minds that resulted in an amicable draw: you can read it on the British Interplanetary Society’s website here: www.bis-space.com/out-of-the-s...

This is superb! Saturn is such a mysterious planet.

#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

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

Looking forward to featuring your amazing work, Nick! @iaaa.org #Odyssey #art #arts #culture #magazine

My micro-blog on the decline in bird populations in the UK, as reported in The Guardian this week: further evidence that we live in an age of extinctions: lnkd.in/p/ezQwzkPY The watercolour is by Rachel Toll. @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @rspbaction.bsky.social #Nature #Conservation

#spacetober day 16: Jupiter Europa is the smallest of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter, and the second closet to the planet. Its surface is icy and relatively smooth. Impacting meteorites cause melting of the surface, allowing the water to smooth out before re-freezing. 1/2 #spaceart #sciart

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘇 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 – 𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗽𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿! It’s been suggested that some of the very first rocket pioneers got the idea for their early spacefaring designs from none other than Fritz Lang and his movie 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘶 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘥. Read the full micro blog here: lnkd.in/p/e3B2ERmr And happy 93rd birthday to the BIS!

"Alien Lifeform..." Read about the spooky variety of life in the oceans, from plankton to the blue whale, in my microblog: lnkd.in/p/edjhi2sW Image courtesy of Nicola Temple. @iaaa.org @seashepherdglobal.bsky.social @nick-stevens.com @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @markgarlick.com @whoi.edu

Available as a print www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Fra...

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

To get my blacks like in this piece (it is still available), I use layers of indigo, Prussian blue & Egyptian Violet. Not only does it avoid mud, the layers give a real feeling of depth to something that could easily feel very flat.

📸 After asking you to share your photos of Jodrell Bank, one response led to an extraordinary discovery: a treasure trove of images taken by William "Bill" Young during his time at the Observatory between 1958 and 1961 Read Wayne's story: https://ow.ly/gqxq50ZWLKX 🔭✨

By me, Saturn V rocket with the Brussels Atomium.

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

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

Rewilding the Earth - why it's time to send a mission to the world we all live on to save its collapsing ecosystems. Read my micro blog here: lnkd.in/p/eHncsNki @iaaa.org @nick-stevens.com @catamaroon.bsky.social #REWILDING #conservation clarkeaward.com #nature #scifi #books

As expected, the Prime Minister's promise to sort out the mess of funding for Jodrell actually meant nothing - it seems the government would like it to be some sort of heritage theme park when you can go and see where we used to do science. 🔭

Want to hear about some of the weirdest planets ever discovered? 🪐👽️ We're kicking off our 2026/27 Public Talk programme by taking our audience on a tour through some of the most peculiar exoplanets discovered to date – some stranger than those imagined by science fiction. ⤵️

Happy World Octopus Day: celebrating through poetry: "When the tide of sleep comes in..." lnkd.in/p/eZ_V2sD2 #Nature #conservation #sea #ocean #octopus #WorldOctopusDay @seashepherdglobal.bsky.social @whoi.edu @oceanconservancy.org @soest.hawaii.edu @carsoncenter.bsky.social #BluePlanet

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