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Sands of Titan (2015)
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/517/issues/7532
#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #planets #planet #moon #moons #satellite #satellites #saturn #titan #cassini #spacecraft
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Evolution of the Universe (2005)
https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/435/issues/7042
#universe #cosmology #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #darkmatter #darkenergy #cosmicweb #galaxies #quasars #blackholes #simulation
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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
#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #solarsystem #heliosphere #voyager #voyager2 #mission #spacecraft #nasa #jpl
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Geology of Europa (1981)
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/289/issues/5793
#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #solarsystem #europa #geology #jupiter #moon #satellite #voyager2 #mission #spacecraft #nasa #jpl
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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
#universe #cosmology #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #andromeda #m31 #galaxy #milkyway #satellite #galaxies
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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
#cosmology #darkmatter #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #galaxies #iras #cosmography #history
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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
#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #cosmology #chime #telescope #radiotelescope #frbs #galaxies
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
#enceladus #saturn #cassini #spacecraft #life #astronomy #astrobiology #astrophysics #space #science #research #universe #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #astrodon
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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.
#nasa #newhorizons #spacecraft #pluto #sputnikplanum #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research
Nature Journal astronomy covers
Anatomy of a kilonova (2017) - Aftermath of the merger between two neutron stars, initially observed in the form of the gravitational waves event GW170817.
Art by Aurore Simonnet http://auroresimonnet.com
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/551/issues/7678
#universe #kilonova #neutronstars #stars #gravitationalwaves #ligo #virgo #physics #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #art #coverart #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research
Nature Journal astronomy covers - 2004
Dear ET...
How to communicate with distant aliens
https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/431/issues/7004
#goldenrecord #nasa #voyager #spacecraft #et #nature #cover #naturecover #astonomy #astrophysics #space #science #research #astrodon #alien #aliens #aliencivilization
Nature Journal astronomy covers - 1993
Is there life on Earth?
Featuring a paper by Carl Sagan and co-authors on a search for life on the pale blue dot from the Galileo spacecraft, as a control experiment for the search for extraterrestrial life by interplanetary missions.
https://nature.com/articles/365715a0
#carlsagan #earth #palebluedot #life #galileo #spacecraft #nasa #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #research #nature #cover #naturecovers
Cheers to #OSIRISREx #ToBennuAndBack with this cover by Nature from back in 2019
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/568/issues/7750
#astronomy #astrophysics #nasa #spacecraft #asteroid #asteroids #astrodon #space #science #research #nature #cover #naturecovers
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Feeling the Force (2012) - The giant gas cloud heading for the Milky Way's black hole.
Featuring a dusty cloud of ionized gas, three times the mass of #Earth, in the process of falling into Sgr A* the supermassive #blackhole lying at the centre of the #MilkyWay, at a speed of 1,700 km/s. In the background are S-stars for which orbits have been determined. Simulation by M. Schartmann using the PLUTO code.
Here is a special Nature cover for the International #ObserveTheMoon Night!
The first soft X-ray image of the Moon, courtesy of reflected solar X-rays, captured by the ROSAT Satellite. The dark side of the Moon shadows a diffuse cosmic X-ray background.
https://www.nature.com/articles/349583a0
#moon #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #universe #space #science #research #nature #cover #naturecovers #rosat #satellite #xray
A soft X-ray image of the Moon obtained by the Röntgen Observatory Satellite ROSAT clearly shows a sunlit crescent, demonstrating that the Moon's X-ray luminosity arises from backscattering of solar X-rays. The Moon's optically dark side is also X-ray dark, and casts a distinct shadow on the diffuse cosmic X-ray background. Unexpectedly, the dark side seems to emit X-rays at a level about one per cent of that of the bright side; this emission very probably results from energetic solar-wind electrons striking the Moon's surface.
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Featuring an artist’s impression of the collision between the protoplanet Theia and proto-Earth, about 4.5 billion years ago.
Credit image: Hernán Cañellas
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/623/issues/7985
#earth #mantle #theia #planet #planets #protoplanet #moon #solarsystem #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #nature #cover #art #coverart
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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.
#mars #water #planetology #astronomy #astrophysics #astronomy #astrodon #space #science #research #tharsis #volcano #volcanoes #nature #cover #naturecover
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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
#nature #cover #art #coverart #covers #naturecover #spaceart #space #astroart #astronomy #astrophysics #physics #astrodon #eso #star #disk #gas #dust #jet #toroid #lmc #galaxy #science #research #alma
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Lunar magnetic field (1972)
The feature article reports a study of the compression of the remanent lunar magnetic field by the solar wind, based on data taken at several Apollo landing sites.
https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/236/issues/5347
#moon #lunar #solar #wind #solarwind #plasma #sun #earth #magneticfield #magnetosphere #apollo #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #physics #space #science #research #STEM #nature #journal #cover #jpl #nasa
Nature Journal astronomy covers
The Early Universe (1982)
Feature review article "The inflationary Universe - birth, death and transfiguration" by John Barrow & Michael Turner
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/298/issues/5877
📷 a simulation of the density contours of the #Universe when it was a million years old (produced by J. Silk, A. Szalay and Ya. B. Zeldovich). This distribution later evolves into a large-scale distribution of #galaxies.
#cosmology #astronomy #astrodon #inflation #science #cover #art #coverart
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
#universe #Einstein #deSitter #physics #science #nature #cover #naturecover #cosmology #history #philosophy #letters #astronomy #astrophysics #relativity #generalrelativity #astrodon
The correspondence between Einstein and de Sitter during 1916 and 1918, recently discovered in the archives of the Sterrewacht at Leiden provides a fascinating glimpse of the thinking of the two principal progenitors of modern cosmology.
Stunning #astroart on the cover of the new issue of Nature
Planet Eaters - The stars that capture and ingest nearby worlds
https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/627/issues/8004
#planet #planets #PlanetEaters #star #stars #astronomy #astrophysics #chemistry #physics #astrodon #space #art #spaceart #science #STEM #cover #coverart #nature
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
Folks are waiting for the Eclipse
© Nature 1973
#eclipse #solareclipse #astronomy #astrodon #science #nature #cover #naturecover #telescope #telescopes #astronomers #history #sciencehistory
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
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
#nature #cover #Sun #star #dynamo #naturecover #physics #astrophysics #astrodon #science #STEM
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, 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
#meteorites #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #naturecover #covers #naturecovers #science #STEM #meteorite
Clearly ruled out intelligent life. Has subsequently been confirmed...
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