Nature astro covers appreciation post

Evolution of the Universe (2005)

https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/435/issues/7042

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Stellar orientation of pyramids (2000)

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/408/issues/6810

#astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #stars #pyramid #pyramids #giza #egypt #egyptology #archeology #history

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Blast from the past (2013) - Enigmatic craters are evidence of ancient Martian supervolcanoes

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/502/issues/7469

#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #planets #planet #mars #geology #crater #craters #volcanology #volcano #volcanoes #supervolcanoes #rock #rocks #magma #climate #history

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Twisted Vista (2018) - on the origin of repeating Fast Radio Bursts, featuring the amazing Arecibo Telescope

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/553/issues/7687

#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #cosmology #arecibo #telescope #arecibotelescope #naic #observatory #frbs #galaxies #neutronstars #magnetism #physics #supernova

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Leaving the Heliosphere (2008) - Voyager 2 reports back

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/454/issues/7200

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Geology of Europa (1981)

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/289/issues/5793

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Cosmic Order (2013) - A corotating plane of dwarf galaxies orbits the Andromeda galaxy, the Milky Way's twin

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/493/issues/7430

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Along for the ride (2011) - The Trojan asteroid that shares Earth's orbit

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/475/issues/7357

#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #solarsystem #trojan #asteroid #lagrange #lagrangepoint #lagrangepointL4 #orbit #orbits #nasa #wise #nasawise #mission #neowise #spacecraft

The End of Cold Dark Matter?

Amazing Nature cover 32 years ago with quite a provocative question !

The full issue: https://nature.com/nature/volumes/349/issues/6304
The paper: https://nature.com/articles/349032a0
News & Views article: https://www.nature.com/articles/349014a0

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Six New Worlds (2011)

NASA's Kepler mission has hit the jackpot with the discovery of a six-planet system orbiting a Sun-like star now named Kepler-11
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/470/issues/7332

#universe #exoplanets #exoworlds #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #nasa #kepler #nasakepler

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Ice Streams on Mars (1981) - featuring a Viking Orbiter image of Kasei Vallis

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/290/issues/5809

#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #planets #planet #mars #viking #orbiter #vikingorbiter #nasa #solarsystem

A very nice Nature cover featuring the CHIME radiotelescope

Space and CHIME (2019) - on the observations of fast radio bursts

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/566/issues/7743

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With Enceladus making the headlines for the detection, in data taken by the Cassini spacecraft Cosmic Dust Analyzer, of phosphates originating in its subsurface ocean, let's enjoy this 2015 Nature cover featuring some simulated eruptions from fractures in the moon's surface.

https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/521/issues/7550

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Triton's capture (2006) - How Neptune gained a moon from a passing binary

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/441/issues/7090

Beside the research paper associated to this cover, this issue of Nature also features a News & Views article "Interplanetary kidnap" by Alessandro Morbidelli.

#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #planets #planet #moon #moons #satellite #satellites #neptune #triton

A vintage cover of the Nature Journal, straight out of the eighties

Hydrogen in galaxies (1986) - featuring the southern spiral galaxy M83. The observations were made with the Very Large Array telescope.

https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/319/issues/6051

#universe #galaxies #messier83 #cosmology #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #vla #verylargearray #radiotelescope #nrao

A spectacular image of Sputnik Planum on Pluto, captured by the New Horizons spacecraft, makes the cover of this 2016 issue of the Nature Journal

https://nature.com/nature/volumes/534/issues/7605

📷 NASA/Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab./Southwest Research Inst. Image composition and processing by P. Schenk & P. Engebretson.

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