A Scheming Pirate Lackey From The Retrofuture!

Chipspeech Defoko

Fan-design for @jackhuwubenak's Uta Utane Alter/Ego port (Defoko Tone from Defokollection)!

TAG! You're it!

"NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is the first U.S. mission to successfully collect a sample from an asteroid. On Oct. 20, 2020, the spacecraft briefly touched down on Bennu, an asteroid more than 200 million miles from Earth, and grabbed dust and rocks from a sample site called Nightingale."

'Swap AU' proposal

Ever wanted to look back in time? This week, we’re launching a kind of time machine – a telescope so powerful it will help us see back some of the first stars and galaxies made after the Big Bang.

The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most advanced telescope we’ve ever put in space. With revolutionary technology, it will study 13.5 billion years of cosmic history and help humanity understand our place in the stars.

Tomorrow, Dec. 25, at 7:20 a.m. ET (12:20 UTC), the Webb Telescope is set to launch from French Guiana, beginning a 29-day journey to a spot a million miles away.

How to Watch:

In English:

Dec. 25

Live coverage starts at 6:00 a.m. ET/11:00 UTC

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Twitch

In Spanish:

Dec. 25

Live coverage starts at 6:30 a.m. ET/11:30 UTC

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter

Once Webb launches, the journey has only just begun. The telescope will begin a 2-week-long process of unfolding itself in space before settling in to explore the universe in ways we’ve never seen before.

Follow along on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and with #UnfoldTheUniverse.

thoughts about the jwst

so i started designing spacecraft personifications with a historical twist

(galileo, wmap and jwst respectively)

mainly because i am a historical fashion bitch and mainly because the duchy of nasa is a hilarious concept

lowdown for each of them:

- galileo: retired mathematician from court of nasa, does hunting in his free time

- wmap: former miniature painter/metalworker, moved on to doing portraiture and shooting the shit with other older people

- jwst: currently employed at the court of nasa as painter for an ungodly sum of money

having ideas for new horizons being a mystic nun who sees new planets in her visions and observes the stars from her cell but haven’t designed that yet

💫 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! ] 💫

cassini's last photo before falling into saturn :) again in planeyboys' style

Pioneer Family!

hi Robin! I love your art sm! I was curious, what are your inspirations for your art style?

Hoooo boy, where do I even begin!

First off, my preference for detail stems from professional comics and manga (bonus points for series' with good practical or sci-fi designs like Nausicaa, Dorohedoro, Dragon Ball Z, Honneamise, Doctor Aphra. etc.), as the high industry standard of polish blew my mind. Whereas I gained my whole robot fixation deal from stuff like Chipspeech and browsing ArtStation.

As for artists...Jamie Hewlett, Luke Pearson, Shikishima (the one who makes the spacecraft anime girls, take one look at their work and you'll know immediately how my brain chemistry changed), Ken Done (he gave me a free poster once, core memory), Moebius and Pixoshiru come to mind. But I by far have the most vestigial habits from Andi Watson (I used to read his comics religiously as a kindergartner, he was basically my budding-off point when it came to art), which is evident in my veeeeery specific way of faking text as well as whatever the hell my simplified doodles have going on.