Shirley Ceravolo

For my recent work, Avatar Amber Inclusion, I created insect wings for my Second Life avatar, MultiverseTraverser1. They are based off a scientific illustration of prehistoric dustywing insects, which are often found in pieces of amber. 🧚‍♀️

I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist

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Image of deep in space, orange dense yet wispy pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust. Text says: “There are real sound waves happening in space. They can’t travel to us because there’s too much of a vacuum. But there is gas in space. There are stars. ... And sound can travel through those objects.” —Dr. Matt Russo

You’ve probably heard that if you scream in space, no one will hear a thing. Total silence? Not really. Space is a vacuum, but it’s not completely quiet.

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A collage of four images showing a dusty nebula. Two-thirds of the collage is taken up by a single image of the nebula, while the remaining third shows three insets stacked on top of each other. In the largest image at left, there is an orange and yellow fang-like cloud of matter that cuts the image in two. The left side of the fang shows more clouds of a dark brown shade, while the right shows filaments of light brown. There are a number of bright blue and red points of light spread throughout, three of which are circled in white and labeled with a number from one to three. Circle 1 is located at about 12 o’clock in the middle of the fang-like cloud, while Circle 2 is at about 5 o’clock and Circle 3 is located at about 7 o’clock, toward the bottom left. Each circle magnifies an individual object, which is shown in each of the three squares to the right of the collage, labeled 1 to 3 from top to bottom. Each image contains a single, fuzzy point of light in the middle.

Spot the tiny scientific “puzzle pieces” in the Flame Nebula! In 2023, scientists used #NASAWebb’s infrared instruments to find several low-mass objects to better understand the lowest mass limit of brown dwarfs or “failed stars.” Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. 🔭 🧪

Deep Time & Cosmic Time 🪨 🌌 Using the terrain of virtual land in Second Life, I juxtaposed the 2006 Hubble Ultra Deep Field with a default rocky terrain texture. I love how it turned out and I look forward to expanding on these sketches.

Avatar Amber Inclusion, 2025. #artandscience

Ready to render! 🤩

Revised & updated prehistoric Coniopterygidae (dustywing) wings. For this piece I’m stepping out of cosmology/astrophysics & into paleoentomology—a branch of entomology dealing with fossilized insects. Saving the rest for later, I’ll finish by saying my interest in 'time immemorial' led me here.

The WIP is finally WIP-ing. I successfully made my avatar some prehistoric dustywing wings for an artwork I am working on.

I recently finished a needle lace sample of an image from 'A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism' by James Clerk Maxwell. I wasn’t sure how it would turn out—the design is complex & I am a lace novice. It’s not perfect, but I really love it. #astrofibres #lacemaking #needlelace #textileart #sciart

Digging. ⛏️ #cosmology

Me with some works in my studio during our open house this past weekend. ⚫️ 💫 #sciart

Promotional graphic for Rubin Observatory's 3200-megapixel group photo. Text reads "Let's make a 3200 megapixel group photo!"

We’re creating a massive, 3200-megapixel group photo…and it won’t be complete without YOU!

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera — the largest camera in the world — began on-sky engineering tests this month. So let’s celebrate! 🔭🧪

Join by May 14: rubinobservatory.org/explore/acti...

my source of happiness is noticing the small things in life, like the way glass distorts its surroundings via refraction. 😌

Israel just bombed a civilian aid ship in international waters.

The Freedom Flotilla was carrying food and medicine to starving Palestinians in Gaza.

This is state terrorism — and Canada’s silence is complicity.

End the blockade. Sanction Israel. Free Palestine.
#Gaza #FreedomFlotilla #cdnpoli

I’m so glad my Mom never let me read or watch Harry Potter as a child. Her reasoning was purely religious, but I am still glad we never put money into J.K. Rowling and never will!

Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing. #poetry #aplacelikethis 🌌

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golden hour in my room ✨

sky selfies we are so back

Cancel the F35 fighter jet contract. Canada shouldn’t spend billions on US made and controlled weapons systems Amidst Trump's economic siege and annexation threats, it is unacceptable Canada is paying a US military giant $19 billion for 88 F-35s. Lockheed Martin’s fighter jet was chosen in part so the Canadian...

Tell Mark Carney to cancel the F35 fighter jet contract. actionnetwork.org/letters/canc...

#studiotime ✨

#studiotime ✨

seeing evidence of human interference on freshly fallen snow shouldn’t activate misanthropic feelings in me, but it does. it really does.

after the big snow storm last month.