Welcome to the sci-art gallery for nam 2026!
Welcome to the sci-art gallery for nam 2026!
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Our gallery contains art submitted by researchers from various countries, displayed at NAM 2026 in Birmingham. Accompanying each piece is a caption from the artist. Stay as long as you like!
Luminal Coherence Field
Six luminous forms emerge against a dark ground, recalling planetary bodies, accretion discs, and diffuse astronomical structure. Through abstraction, the work considers how light, matter, and motion produce brief coherence within a wider cosmic field.
Amalie stokholm
Amalie stokholm
She/Her
University of Birmingham
Excerpt of the early-internet piece 'we built robots' by swanjolras, beads on fabric.
ruggero valli
ruggero valli
He/him
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
Spinstar (or Be star)
Accreting Black Hole
Neutron Star Merger
Alien Landscape
Black Hole Passing in Front of a Star
John Meacham
John Meacham
Norman Lockyer Observatory
Insta: kuiperbeltkaren7
Space Art
Shirley Harding
Shirley Harding
She/Her
University of Birmingham
Linking Disciplines - Astronomy and Poetry
Joanne Pledger
Joanne Pledger
She/Her
She/Her
University of Lancashire
@unilancashire
Space in Schools
This image is taken from Space in Schools. Space in schools is a project designed to teach primary children about Earth and Space through a cross-curricular approach using movement and dance. In this time-lapse image, dance artist Lucy Starkey, is exploring the physical concept of an orbit.Â
Jenni French
Jenni French
She/they
University of Birmingham
@jenni.french on Instagram
Roll for Galaxy
Resin polyhedral dice inspired by spiral galaxies and rotating accretion disks.
Nebula Art
"The Andromeda Galaxy" and "The Overview Effect" are made of glass seed beads and crystals. The others, "The Eagle Nebula" and "Star Birth" are oil paintings. I started creating these images when I was 75 years old, then was accepted in to the International Association of Astronomical Artist. Now age 82, I am still creating. Â
thomas marriott
thomas marriott
He/Him
He/Him
University of Birmingham
University of Birmingham
Instagram: @_thomas.m_
Instagram: @_thomas.m_
Some planets (and a black hole) made using the open-source VFX software Blender. All textures are made procedurally.
In the Centre of Immensities
CERNAN Gemini IX-A
Building LOFAR
makenzie e. wortley
makenzie e. wortley
She/Her
She/Her
University of Birmingham
@makartzie on Instagram
Postcards from Work - Enjoying the Everyday
hannah parsler
hannah parsler
She/Her
She/Her
University of Durham
@hparslerart on instragram and tiktok
M106
soheb mandhai
soheb mandhai
He/Him
He/Him
University of Manchester
University of Manchester
Instagram: @TheAstroPhoenixÂ
Instagram: @TheAstroPhoenixÂ
A star being torn apart by the accretion disk around an AGN (Commission). Press Release
A visualisation of the aftermath following a neutron star merger (Commission). Press Release
The jet of a gamma-ray burst punching through the surrounding material and energising the material around it (Commission).
Image of a neutron star being torn apart by a black-hole (Commission). Press Release
A Jovian style exoplanet orbiting its host star (Commission). Press Release
SSE & ASR Research groups
SSE & ASR Research groups
University of Birmingham
The Fabric of the Universe
This tapestry was created by members of two astronomy groups at the University of Birmingham — Sun, Stars, and Exoplanets (SSE) and the Astrophysics and Space Research Group (ASR). Made from over 50 crochet granny squares, it brings together contributions from researchers across both groups, many of whom learnt to crochet from scratch especially for this project. The piece took three months to complete, stitch by stitch, square by square.
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