Poems About Laika (the Soviet Space Dog)

Happy Anniversary to humanity's silent envoy! Here's to 44 years of odyssey - and the next 44 to come.

Merry Christmas yall, and happy launch day to the James Webb Space Telescope!

He forgot lol

ESA's Gaia observatory. 🌌

“Gaia is an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, in the process revealing the composition, formation and evolution of the Galaxy.”

Artfight attack for @robinjiaying !!

💫 Happy Anniversary, TBH! 🎂

Three teams of talented artists came together in The Black Hole for our 4th anniversary on August 10, 2023 - and created some deliciously cosmic pieces to celebrate! Characters featured are our mascots, Terri (they/them), Black Hole-chan (she/her) and Tsuki (she/they).

Terri: Sketch by @envenuslu, lineart by @doppiofox. coloring by @circifox and background by @lesserkey!

BH-chan: Sketch by Pazzled, lineart by @robinwaaaaa, coloring by comrade_dragoslav, and background by ComradeGatekeepre!

Tsuki: Sketch by @swissy, lineart by @councilofsix/@lesterderosso, coloring by @spectralines and background by @ravenaexe!

✨ [ Learn more about our community & the MWF at theblackhole.carrd.co! Be on the lookout for more art events soon! ] 💫

The Joker 🃏

Joker's appearance has been about as malleable as the storylines he comes with so I wanted to try my hand at giving my own spin to him!

What you see here is sort of a mix between goofy '60s Joker and the horse arsonist nightmare that his character eventually spiralled into, oh, and with obvious Phoenix Joker flair because banger makeup.

THINK

illustration of the semi-automatic ground environment (SAGE) memory console alongside an operator.

character design by my friend bloops, who does not use tumblr.

Number of spacecraft I have drawn doing the blehhh... pose: 2

Sorta a collaboration wit @helljunker lolllll

Your voyager 2 design has been bouncing around in my brain. May I know more about them? :33

Absolutely! Due to the missions' nature, I've characterised both Voyager probes as peaceful, enlightened, and a little esoteric with a love for music and the universe.

Design wise, V2's clothing is based on the Little Prince (due to some parallels with the mission) as well as bunny suits (yes they're called that), they were more lax with the cleanroom regulations back in the day so it's just a hat and coat. I made it black in my design to match the spacecraft's tarp.

They have blue eyes as a reference to the Pale Blue Dot image but I'm quickly realising it doesn't make much sense given that the image was taken by V1 and not 2, so I may change it to whatever the colour of V2's final image was in the future.

Real OGs will remember how both my Voyager designs were radically different from one another where one was designed upside down and the other rightside up; it was to reflect the spacecrafts' almost opposite trajectories but it was sorta a split second decision on my part back then haha.

art fight attack for @robinjiaying