Beautiful new cover of the Nature journal, for a paper on the ancestry and origin of meteorites

Featuring a cross-sectional view of the interior of a meteorite recovered from the Mackay Glacier icefields.

https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/634/issues/8034

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Nature Journal astronomy covers

1975: Three Hundred Years of Greenwich

https://nature.com/articles/255581a0

#Greenwich #Royal #Observatory #time #space #RCO #England #London #British #GreatBritain #UnitedKingdom #Herstmonceux #Castle #HerstmonceuxCastle #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #naturecover #covers #naturecovers #science #STEM #history #stars #Universe #HistoryOfScience

Beautiful new cover of the Nature Journal

Moment in the Sun.

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/629/issues/8013

The cover pic is a composite of some 150 images of the Sun taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory between 2010 and 2020, capturing variations in the Sun’s magnetic field over nearly a full sunspot cycle.

Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO

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Awesome 1979 cover of Nature featuring the giant Arecibo radiotelescope in Puerto Rico, with a busy operator in the control room in the foreground.

Feature paper by Taylor, Fowler, and McCulloch on general relativistic effects in binary pulsar PSR1913+16
https://nature.com/articles/27743

#Arecibo #radiotelescope #observatory #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #binary #pulsar #binarypulsar #pulsars #nature #cover #naturecover #covers #naturecovers #relativity #generalrelativity #physics #science #STEM

Folks are waiting for the Eclipse

© Nature 1973

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Cosmic Strings, and their inprint on the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation, on the cover of this 1984 issue of Nature.

Featuring a paper by Nick Kaiser and Albert Stebbins
https://nature.com/articles/310391a0

... and a News & Views article by Craig Hogan
https://www.nature.com/articles/310365a0

#CosmicStrings #Cosmology #CMB #cosmic #microwave #background #radiation #EarlyUniverse #universe #NickKaiser #AlbertStebbins #CraigHogan #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #science #research #STEM #nature #cover #naturecover

A timely Nature cover, on the occasion of Albert Einstein 145ᵗʰ birthday.

The issue features a fascinating Review Article by Carla and Franz Kahn: «Letters from Einstein to de Sitter on the nature of the Universe»

https://www.nature.com/articles/257451a0

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Nature Journal astronomy covers appreciation post

Featuring an artist’s impression of a massive young star in the process of forming, discovered in our nearest neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Credit image: ESO/M. Kornmesser

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/625/issues/7993

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Nature Journal astronomy covers appreciation post

Water on Mars (1987)

Featuring a Review Article by USGS planetary geologist Michael H. Carr

https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/326/issues/6108

Credit image: A. McEwen/USGS-Flagstaff. At the bottom is the equatorial canyon system. Dark spots on the left are the large Tharsis volcanoes.

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Nature Journal astronomy covers - 2004

Dear ET...

How to communicate with distant aliens

https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/431/issues/7004

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