Additional #sciart boost!🚀

Diego Ortega@diegooa.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚀Spaceport landscapes Series of drawings showing the diversity of locations of spaceports across the world. I wanted to show rockets within the environments of their launching sites, as well as some of the local fauna 🧵Thread for additional explanation #spaceart #rocket #space

📈 La primera mitad del verano de 2026 (período del 1 de junio al 15 de julio) ha sido la más cálida de la serie histórica en España. Con una temperatura media 3.3 °C por encima del promedio normal de 1991-2020, supera por 0.4 °C al mismo período de 2024 y por 1 °C al de 2015. 1/2

Here is a quick watercolor painting of an Orangethroat Pikeblenny, Chaenopsis alepidota, for Sunday Fish Sketch. #sciart #coralreefs #marinelife #worldwatercolormonth #worldwatercolormonth2026 #sundayfishsketch

Mars in enhanced visible colour, imaged by EMM/EXI on 25 October 2025. Valles Marineris stands out near the centre of the disk, seen under morning light. 📸 Emirates Mars Mission / EXI / UAE Space Agency / MBRSC / LASP / EMM Science Data Center / Thomas Thomopoulos

A Sardinian Warbler from southern Spain... #BirdoftheDay #PerfectPoise #birds #aves

On to number 7! Microraptor catcing a Cathayornis in the forests of Liaoning, China roughly 125 million years ago. Copic Marker and colored pencil on Fabriano paper 13.8" x 9.8" (35 x 25 cm) #paleoart #microraptor #prehistoricbirds #sciart

Get highlights from June #C3S Climate Bulletin in our summary: an intense heatwave leading to western Europe’s hottest June on record, 2nd‑warmest June globally at 1.39°C above 1850–1900 average, record June sea surface temperatures linked to El Niño & more. 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/intense-heat...

JWST and Hubble image of Arp 142, also known as NGC 2936 and NGC 2937, or the Penguin and the Egg. In Hubble’s visible light image (left) a dark brown dust lane crosses the Penguin. In Webb’s near-infrared view (right), this dust is fainter. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Source

Green Hairstreak on Lilac Watercolour on vintage J. Whatman paper from 1940, approximately 134 x 178 mm. Referenced from a photograph by Debbie Anne Hope. Original available in the @changelingart.bsky.social 'Bugs & Beasties 6' auction this week: www.facebook.com/media/set/?v... 1/

Cover Design for Aeons magazine issue 3 - ‘Exceptional Preservation’ Concavenator lays dead in a shallow river, Pelecanimimus is snagged by dead wood.

#海族のお宝2026

Pteros, rebuilt from the ground up. The complete pterosaur catalog, the artists behind the reconstructions, and all our exhibits, now in one place. pteros.com

Quality video from CGTN : Why does the reusability of rockets matter?

Gorgonopsid sketches Inostrancevia, Viatkogorgon, Dinogorgon #paleoart #sciart #art

Europe recorded 10,000 excess deaths during late-June heatwave, data show reut.rs/3SXDz2G

Europe recorded 10,000 excess deaths during late-June heatwave, data show

The vast majority — more ​than 9,000 — were among people aged 65 and above.

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The small icy moon Mimas, floating in space above Saturn, the planet crossed by the shadows of its vast ring system. NASA Photojournal image PIA06176, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 18 January 2005.

MTG-S1 is now operational! The satellite is now officially delivering weather data after its commissioning has. For MTG-S1, this achievement is particularly significant because it introduces capabilities that Europe has never before had in geostationary orbit🛰️ www.esa.int/Applications...

Evolution with Chris Packham premieres tomorrow on BBC Two and iPlayer! We have been working on this programme for nearly two years, and I am so excited for people to watch it. I am so proud of this project and of our team – here’s a short thread ahead of release! (1/14)

#SundayFishSketch 🐠Starting a new fish series, this one focused on pycnodont fish. Today we kick off with some lineart of Triassic and Jurassic members of the group: Brembodus, Macromesodon and Gyrodus #paleoart #fish

🚀Spaceport landscapes Series of drawings showing the diversity of locations of spaceports across the world. I wanted to show rockets within the environments of their launching sites, as well as some of the local fauna 🧵Thread for additional explanation #spaceart #rocket #space

Number 6: Yuanchuavis kompsosoura having a nap on a brach, while it´s lightly drizzling. Had fun with this little guys plumage and the spider :) Copic Marker and colored pencil on Fabriano paper 13.8" x 9.8" (35 x 25 cm) #SciArt #paleoart

Después de muchas tormentas por fin he conseguido cazar un duende rojo, o "sprite". Pequeño pero ahí está. Es una descarga en las capas altas de la atmósfera que se producen en grandes tormentas. Desde el Centro Astronómico de Trevinca, Ourense. La tormenta estaba en Asturias.

Lunar View, after Lucien Rudaux. The original lighting made the central peak pitch black, as it was completely backlit, so I moved the Sun to one side. The Earth is unrealistically large. Terrain in #Gaea, everything else in #Lightwave3d

☄️ Komeet Neowise: het is precies zes jaar geleden dat deze #komeet boven Nederland zichtbaar werd! De foto hieronder heb ik gemaakt van 10 op 11 juli 2020. Een fantastische nacht met lage temperaturen en grondmist... eigenlijk alles wat je als fotograaf wenst op zo'n moment 📸

Kestrel and flowers, studied by Giuseppe Arcimboldo of Milan. Today is his day.

🚀Spaceport landscapes Series of drawings showing the diversity of locations of spaceports across the world. I wanted to show rockets within the environments of their launching sites, as well as some of the local fauna 🧵Thread for additional explanation #spaceart #rocket #space

Son días para envidiar a quien puede zambullirse de vez en cuando. Martín pescador (Alcedo atthis). Albufera de València #Kingfisher

Two year anniversary of when I first posted this comic

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Al menos 12 fallecidos en el incendio forestal de Los Gallardos (Almería). ⚫️ Es el incendio con más víctimas mortales en lo que va de siglo. ‼️ Al menos 1.000 personas están evacuadas de sus domicilios.

Al menos doce muertos en el incendio forestal de Los Gallardos (Almería)

Los fallecidos han sido encontrados en varios vehículos que se encontraban en un camino próximo a la localidad de Lubrín | Cadena SER

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Cormorant vs Eel. This tussle went on for a good 10 minutes, with the eel putting up a tremendous fight to try to escape and then strangle the cormorant, who overpowered it in the end. Nature can be a cruel mistress indeed.