On the cover of Science Magazine this week

Interstellar Dust: Mapping dust properties in the Milky Way

Credit image: ESO/Serge Brunier
https://www.science.org/toc/science/387/6739?et_rid=1080503712&et_cid=5559808

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Kodiac butte starred in this beautiful cover of Science Magazine
https://science.org/toc/science/374/6568

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A lovely, vintage 1968 cover of Science Magazine to celebrate the international #ObserveTheMoon night, featuring a lunar gravimetric map of the earthside hemisphere, obtained by the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft tracking data.

https://www.science.org/toc/science/161/3842

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The Arecibo Telescope makes the cover of this 1964 issue of Science Magazine.

Feature article by William E. Gordon, the father of the Arecibo Observatory, describing the recently completed instruments and its science goals.

https://science.org/toc/science/146/3640

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Science Magazine astronomy covers appreciation post

BLACK HOLES (2012) - Featuring an illustration of the black hole in Cygnus X-1, a binary star system 6000 light-years away.

Credit image: NASA/Chandra X-ray Center/M. Weiss

https://science.org/toc/science/337/6094

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Science Magazine astronomy covers

Supernova 1987A

Before (left) and after (right) photos taken using the 3.9-meter Anglo-Australian Telescope show the star that exploded and the supernova shortly after outburst. Credits: David Malin.

https://science.org/toc/science/240/4853

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Science Magazine Astronomy Covers - 2014

How far are these stars? Precise interferometry settles the question for the Pleiades.

Featuring a photography by Roberto Colombari.

https://www.science.org/toc/science/345/6200

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Science Magazine Astronomy Covers

Ulysses at Jupiter (1992)

Featuring a drawing of the Ulysses spacecraft leaving Jupiter, traveling southward in the previously unexplored dusk sector. Also featured: the large Io plasma torus and a small Auroral Oval. Credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

https://www.science.org/toc/science/257/5076

#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #sciencecovers #jupiter #ulysses #spacecraft #rendezvous #io #aurora #dusk #solarsystem #exploration #nasa #jpl

Beautiful cover for this 1981 issue of Science featuring the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, to illustrate the success of scientific projects as international cooperative efforts.

https://science.org/toc/science/213/4512

📷 by René Racine
✍️ feature article by Larkin Kerwin, President of the National Research Council of Canada: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.7268414

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Science Magazine astronomy covers

Lunar impact (2016) - How this crater got its rings

Featuring a digital terrain model of the Orientale impact basin.
Credit: Ernest Wright, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

https://www.science.org/toc/science/354/6311

#moon #crater #topography #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #universe #grail #spacecraft #nasa #lunarcraters #craters #visualization