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.

#astronomy #astrodon #space

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