Welcome to the sci-art gallery for nam 2025!
Welcome to the sci-art gallery for nam 2025!
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Our gallery contains art submitted by researchers from various countries, displayed at NAM 2025 in Durham. Accompanying each piece is a caption from the artist. Stay as long as you like!
Katrine alice Glasscock
Katrine alice Glasscock
She/Her
University of Manchester
Exploring the Cosmological 21cm Signal
Watercolour on paper, 2020. Originally made for the front cover of the Master's thesis of Katrine A. Glasscock, entitled '21-cm Emission in the Early Universe in Non-Standard Cosmological Models".
Twirling and Swirling; the Dance of Two Galaxies Merging
(Print) Originally water colour on paper with details in acrylic. Made for a Master's thesis on galaxy mergers
lucy helton
lucy helton
Slade School of Fine Art / UCL
@lucyhelton on Instagram
Proposed work-in-progress installation in the grounds of MSSL, Guilford
Example of radio-fax printed onto stable thermal paper. Visualisation of a decoded audio transmission from a Mars Orbiter Mission over 18 million km away
Hannah Wakeford
Hannah Wakeford
She/Her
University of Bristol
@stellarplanet on Bluesky
The Great Lord Kroak, the oldest wizard across all mortal realms, with the power to distort space and time, summoning comets, unleashing blasts of lightning, and causing vast earthquakes. With the battle won he will disappear in a shimmering aurora of starlight, only to re-emerge when fate necessitates it.
ancy anna john
ancy anna john
She/Her
University of Birmingham
@ancy_anna_john_rakesh on Instagram
Photography of astronomical observatories
TNG and GTC in the Golden hour. This picture was taken right before one of the observing nights during June 2024.
Beautiful sunset, with GTC in the foreground.
TNG over the clouds. A moment before I started calibrating the HARPN spectrograph for that night's observation.
gemma bower
gemma bower
She/Her
University of Leicester
@paint_the_sky_blue on Instagram
Aurora Over Mountains
Oil painting of aurora over mountains in Bob Ross style
louise barden
louise barden
She/Her
University of Birmingham
Irridescence in Clouds on a Cold Day
Photo of iridescent Cirrus clouds on a cold day: bright sunlight passing through ice particles resulting in a spectrum of colours - usually seen over mountains, but seen over Kidderminster in February 2016 (definitely no mountains here!)
John paice
John paice
He/They
He/They
University of Durham
The Hertzsprung-Russell Dragons
Colours of a Cataclysmic Variable
You Are Here
A Cosmic Black Widow
The Eyes of XRISM
leah morabito
leah morabito
She/Her
She/Her
University of Durham
@astroRadioLeah on Bluesky
Thesis dress
The dress code for a PhD defense in the Netherlands is 'black tie'. I made this dress for my defense, and embroidered something from each of my thesis chapters on it. On the front along the collar are diffraction spikes from 'quasi-stellar radio sources' - i.e. quasars, along with a record breaking radio image of a radio galaxy - this was the highest resolution image ever made below 100MHz at the time. On the sleeves are radio spectra from M82, while the back collar features equations for calculating free-free Gaunt coefficients. Around the bottom hem of the dress are dipole antennas from the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR), which provided all of the data for my thesis.
Anjali piette
Anjali piette
She/Her
She/Her
University of Birmingham
G-Astronomy!
The Northumberland Telescope dome, Cambridge, made out of gingerbread (photographed in front of the real telescope dome).
mackenzie e. wortley
mackenzie e. wortley
She/Her
She/Her
University of Birmingham
@makartzie on Instagram
Kilanova: A Real-Life Fullmetal Alchemist
Acrylic on Canvas
May 2025
seti astrophel
seti astrophel
He/Him
He/Him
University of Leicester
Seti-Astro on Ravelry
Seti-Astro on Ravelry
@Seti-Astro on Youtube
@Seti-Astro on Youtube
@seti.astro on Instagram
Mini Protoplanetary Disks (No ALMA required!)
Protoplanetary disks come in various shapes and configurations, which make them fun to crochet! The left model is based on HD 169142, and the ones on the right are very loosely based on disks featuring spirals such as Elias 2-27. The ones on the right took under an hour to make, and there is a free pattern and video tutorial on my Ravelry and YouTube.
jenni french
jenni french
She/Her
She/Her
University of Birmingham
University of Birmingham
@jenni.french on Instagram
@jenni.french on Instagram
Roll for Star Formation
Set of polyhedral dice inspired by star-forming regions
Made with epoxy resin, inked in acrylic
Houda haidar
Houda haidar
She/Her
She/Her
University of Newcastle
University of Newcastle
@blackholephd on X
@blackholephd on X
houdahaidar on LinkedIn
houdahaidar on LinkedIn
The turbulent heart of a supermassive black hole
Exploring space
Shocks driven by a radio jet
soheb mandhai
soheb mandhai
He/Him
He/Him
University of Manchester
University of Manchester
@TheAstroPhoenix on Socials
@TheAstroPhoenix on Socials
1. Image of a neutron star being torn apart by a black-hole.
Press release: https://www.ligo-india.in/nsbh-merger-discovery/
2. A visualisation of the aftermath following a neutron star merger.
Press release: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-63887870
3. The jet of a gamma-ray burst punching through the surrounding material and energising the material around it
4. A star being torn apart by the accretion disk around an AGN.
Press release: https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/2024/black-hole-destroys-star.html
Mélissa Azombo
Mélissa Azombo
University of Manchester
University of Manchester
@ThatPhDScholar on X
@ThatPhDScholar on X
ThatPhDScholar on Youtube
ThatPhDScholar on Youtube
The Force Is Strong With This One (Physics Version)
A light t-shirt transfer of the phrase "the force is strong with this one" using a mathematical formula.
jess doppel
jess doppel
They/Them
They/Them
University of Durham
University of Durham
@astrojess94 on Instagram
@astrojess94 on Instagram
Just a Happy Little Galaxy with its Globular Cluster
Watercolour on paper
ulrike kuchner
ulrike kuchner
She/Her
She/Her
University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham
@ulrikekuchner on Instagram
@ulrikekuchner on Instagram
@conradshawcross on Instagram
@conradshawcross on Instagram
The Blind Proliferation
Exploring the Multiverse Theory in Quantum Physics
Conrad Shawcross RA
Installation view from the exhibition Cosmic Titans: Art, Science and the Quantum Universe, Lakeside Arts Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, Jan 25 - 27 Apr 2025. Curated by Ulrike Kuchner, Neil Walker and Silke Weinfurtner. Based on ARTlab Nottingham residency 2024. Image credit: Nick Dunmer
Created in collaboration with the University of Nottingham’s Gravity Laboratory and ARTlab Nottingham, with contributions by several UoN physicists. Shawcross further thanks Victoria Miro, James Morrow, Joe Raffles, Phoebe Howard, India Lewis, everyone at Gravity Laboratory, and Ed Copeland.
@monicadem on Instagram
@monicadem on Instagram
@danielabrillestrada on Instagram
@danielabrillestrada on Instagram
Begriff des Körpers
Reflecting on the Body's Role in Understanding the Cosmos
Daniela Brill Estrada & Monica C. LoCascio
Installation view from the exhibition Cosmic Titans
Created in collaboration with the University of Nottingham’s Gravity Laboratory and ARTlab Nottingham, with contributions by UoN physicists.
The artists also thank Ed Copeland and the Framework Knitters Museum (donated antique wool) and the Cluny Lace Company (donated thread cones)
@conradshawcross on Instagram
@conradshawcross on Instagram
Ringdown
Exploring the Final Moments Before Two Spiralling Black Holes Merge
Installation view from the exhibition Cosmic Titans
Conrad Shawcross RA
Created in collaboration with the University of Nottingham’s Gravity Laboratory and ARTlab Nottingham, with contributions by UoN physicists.
The artist also thanks Victoria Miro, Rob Fung, Chris Taylor, Henry Whitfield, India Lewis, Jake Major, Joe Raffles, Gravity Laboratory, Adam Lowe and Factum Foundation.
@alistairmcclymont on Instagram
@alistairmcclymont on Instagram
Alistair McClymont
A Glimpse Into the First Moments After the Big Bang
An Early Universe
Installation view from the exhibition Cosmic Titans
Created in collaboration with the University of Nottingham’s Gravity Laboratory, Assoc. Prof. Lina Jansson and ARTlab Nottingham, with contributions from UoN physicists and philosophers.
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