Science Magazine astronomy covers appreciation post
Martian Delta (2021) - Perseverance rover investigates ancient hydrology
https://science.org/toc/science/374/6568
#universe #mars #perseverance #rover #perseverancerover #nasa #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #planets #planet #hydrology #jezero #crater #jezerocrater #kodiakbutte
Science Magazine astronomy covers appreciation post
MESSENGER Returns to Mercury (2008)
https://science.org/toc/science/321/5885
#universe #mercury #messenger #spacecraft #nasa #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #planets #planet #solarsystem
Super cool 1967 cover of Science Magazine for a paper by George Gamow on the History of the Universe
Representations of the world's evolution: white box is primeval fireball; black box and box lower left represent cool and dark stage when galaxies begin to form; lower right box indicates dispersal of stellar galaxies. Adapted from George Gamow by Marshall Kathan, AAAS.
https://science.org/toc/science/158/3802
#cosmology #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #bigbang #theory #galaxies #science #sciencecovers
Science Magazine astronomy covers appreciation post
Dawn explores Ceres (2016) - Featuring Ahuna Mons, a 4-kilometer-high cryovolcano formed by an eruption of ice from beneath the surface and an unnamed 17-kilometer-diameter crater.
https://science.org/toc/science/353/6303
#universe #ceres #dwarfplanet #dawn #spacecraft #dawnspacecraft #nasa #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #planets #planet #solarsystem #cryovolcanism #crater #craters
Beautiful 1979 cover of Science Magazine for a special issue on Venus
https://science.org/toc/science/205/4401
This artist's view of Venus is based on ideas of some scientists in the early 20th century. Competing theories pictured #Venus as a hot, lifeless desert or as a cool, moist, habitable #planet. High mountains, swamps, vast oceans, dense water clouds were postulated. Venus was widely thought to be similar in development to #Earth in the Paleozoic era. Painting by Ron Miller.
A cover of Science Magazine that is very dear to me, featuring the 10-meter telescope of the Whipple Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Arizona. That's the telescope I used for my PhD! I spent 40 nights of data-taking there back in 1996-97.
https://science.org/toc/science/238/4833
#astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #telescope #observatory #universe #science #sciencecovers #phd #phdlife #research #arizona
A superb artist's rendition of the Kepler-9 system, with its two Saturn-size planets, makes the cover of the issue #6000 of Science Magazine back in 2010
Credit image: NASA/Ames/JPL Caltech/T. Pyle
https://science.org/toc/science/330/6000
#exoplanets #kepler #spacecraft #kepler-9 #nasa #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #sciencecovers
Mount Hadley, the Moon, 12 km northeast of the landing site, on the cover of this special Apollo 15 issue of Science, 1972.
The mountain rises more than 4500 m above the cratered surface of Palus Putredinis (Marsh of Decay) in the foreground.
📷 James B. Irwin
https://www.science.org/toc/science/175/4020
#nasa #moon #apollo #apollo15 #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #sciencecovers
Science Magazine astro covers appreciation post
The Cosmic Web (2008)
The #universe is filled with filamentary structures of dark and visible matter that make up the “cosmic web”, as suggested in this #artist’s rendering of cosmic bubbles and connected clumps. In this issue are considered the latest #research into its origins and evolution.
📷 Shigemi Numazawa/Atlas Photo Bank/Photo Researchers Inc.
https://science.org/toc/science/319/5859
#cosmology #cosmicweb #astronomy #astrodon #space #sciencecovers
Amazing 1965 Science cover: Mariner IV approaches Mars
at first glance looking at the miniature image I thought it was an X-wing squadron in attack formation! #starwars #xwing #rogueleader #roguesquadron #MayTheForceBeWithYou
📷 Drawing by Federal Graphics
https://science.org/toc/science/149/3689
#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #science #cover #covers #sciencecovers #space #research #planets #planet #mars #mariner #solarsystem
Science Magazine astronomy covers appreciation post
LARGE SCALE MEASUREMENTS (1992) - featuring an illustration of one site of the proposed LIGO Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
Beautiful art by Ruth Sofair Ketler
https://science.org/toc/science/256/5055
#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #science #cover #covers #sciencecovers #space #research #ligo #observatory #gravitationalwave #laser #interferometer #experiment #relativity #generalrelativity #physics
Well, since we are bracing for the impact of an imminent major announcement on pulsars and, maybe, some gravitational wave background, why not enjoy this 2004 special Science Magazine issue on pulsars!
https://science.org/toc/science/304/5670
see in particular the paper by Ingrid Stairs p.547
#pulsar #pulsars #pulsartiming #nanograv #physics #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #science #cover #covers #sciencecovers #space #research #gravitationalwaves #relativity #generalrelativity #cosmology
Sky Watchers - Maya astronomy, then and now
Beautiful 2022 Science cover, featuring a 10th-century Maya structure at Chichen Itza called the Observatory for its expansive view of the sky and a design guided by key positions of the ☀️, 🌒, and planets
https://www.science.org/toc/science/376/6597
➡️ the feature article by Joshua Sokol https://www.science.org/content/article/what-did-ancient-maya-see-in-stars-their-descendants-team-with-scientists-find-out
#maya #astronomy #archeology #chichenitza #mexico #zunil #guatemala #stargazers #stargazing #sun #astrodon #science #cover #covers #sciencecovers #research
Science Magazine astronomy covers appreciation post
The dark side of Saturn's rings (1996) - imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope
The main rings are illuminated by reflected saturnshine and by sunlight diffusely transmitted through the translucent C ring and Cassini division.
https://www.science.org/toc/science/272/5261
#universe #saturn #saturnrings #darkside #hubble #nasa #nasahubble #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #planets #planet #solarsystem
Science Magazine astronomy covers appreciation post
Signatures of the Sun's Center (2007) - featuring the SOHO spacecraft
https://science.org/toc/science/316/5831
#universe #sun #soho #spacecraft #sohospacecraft #helioseismology #stellarstructure #solarphysics #physics #esa #nasa #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #star
Astronomy covers of Science Magazine
The Maze of Haze (2023) - Labmade aerosols help make sense of alien atmospheres
https://science.org/toc/science/379/6628
Credit: NASA; ESA; CSA; Joseph Olmsted (STScI)
Cover story by Zack Savitsky: https://science.org/content/article/lifting-veil-astronomers-conjure-hazes-obscure-alien-worlds
#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #exoplanet #exoplanets #wasp39-b #alienworld #atmosphere #laboratory #experiment #biosignatures #life
Astronomy covers of Science Magazine
Is the Earth affected by its cosmological setting in the Universe?
A fascinating paper by the great Princeton physicist Robert Dicke is the feature article of this 1962 issue of Science: https://www.science.org/toc/science/138/3541
#universe #cosmology #physics #geophysics #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #galaxy #galaxies
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
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
#science #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #telescope #cfht #canada #france #hawaii #maunakea #observatory #maunakeaobservatory #sciencecovers #covers #research
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
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
#universe #stars #pleiades #starcluster #astrophotography #photography #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #magazine #sciencemagazine #cover #covers #sciencecovers #research #interferometry
Science Magazine Astronomy Covers
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2007)
Featuring a sublime false-color image of gully channels in a crater in the southern highlands of Mars, taken by the HiRISE camera onboard the MRO Spacecraft. The gullies emanating from the rocky cliffs near the crater's rim (upper left) show meandering and braided patterns typical of water-carved channels.
https://www.science.org/toc/science/317/5845
Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Source: https://mars.nasa.gov/mro/gallery/press/20070920_PSP_003583_1425.html
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Rosetta Visits Lutetia (2011)
Featuring asteroid 21 Lutetia, as seen by the Rosetta spacecraft from a distance of ~3500 kilometers in July 2010. Lutetia, 120 kilometers across, located in the asteroid main belt, is a remnant planetesimal from the time of our solar system's formation and is one of the largest asteroids that have been visited by a spacecraft.
https://www.science.org/toc/science/334/6055
#astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #asteroid #spacecraft #esa
@MisterMadge The annoucement will be made here by the NSF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydSZVt8iucA
It is related to NANOGrav which is searching low-frequency gravitational wave through radio pulsar timing: maybe they found a GW background coming from all directions... Wait and See!
Neat looking, but I feel like the artist didn't have much imagination here; pretty much bog-standard looking sun with bog-standard looking jupiters.
For one, I don't think a gas-giant could ever get that cloud pattern on a close, tidally-locked orbit.
Second, why do both gas-giants look like copy-pasta?
I am pretty sure that even on a tidally locked planet, Coriolis forces play an important role, explaining the striped pattern. The period of the outer planet is 40 days, so it rotates once in 40 days if tidally locked.
Also, Venus has very strong winds, that blow its atmosphere once around the planet in 4 days although its rotation period is even slower.
@pomarede
In a lecture series from "The Great Courses" on Radio telescopes by Dr. Felix Lockman, he describes his fond memories of the 140 foot radio telescope, which he used for his doctoral research.
It made me realize that one's doctoral research days are intense, and likely always fondly associated with whatever lab or instruments they used at the time. My fond memories are of a computer I managed and developed for several astronomers, which became the basis for my doctoral work.
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