Nature astro covers appreciation post
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
Nature astro covers appreciation post
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
Nature astro covers appreciation post
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
Nature astro covers appreciation post
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
Nature Journal astronomy covers appreciation post
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
Nature Journal astronomy covers appreciation post
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
Nature Journal astronomy covers appreciation post
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: an appreciation post
Nova Fireball (2022)
Cover image by Annika Kreikenbohm
☑️ paper "X-ray detection of a nova in the fireball phase": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04635-y
☑️ News & Views article "Chance discovery sheds light on exploding stars": https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01255-4
☑️ full issue https://nature.com/nature/volumes/605/issues/7909
#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #cosmos #science #research #nova #star #stars #serendipity #discovery #erosita
Novae are caused by runaway thermonuclear burning in the hydrogen-rich envelopes of accreting white dwarfs, which leads to a rapid expansion of the envelope and the ejection of most of its mass1,2. Theory has predicted the existence of a ‘fireball’ phase following directly on from the runaway fusion, which should be observable as a short, bright and soft X-ray flash before the nova becomes visible in the optical3–5. Here we report observations of a bright and soft X-ray flash associated with the classical Galactic nova YZ Reticuli 11 h before its 9 mag optical brightening. No X-ray source was detected 4 h before and after the event, constraining the duration of the flash to shorter than 8 h. In agreement with theoretical predictions4,6–8, the source’s spectral shape is consistent with a black-body of 3.27+0.11−0.33 × 105 K (28.2+0.9−2.8 eV), or a white dwarf atmosphere, radiating at the Eddington luminosity, with a photosphere that is only slightly larger than a typical white dwarf.
Check out this jaw-dropping cover of the Nature Journal published in 2011
Europa's Great Lakes - Watery origins for surface chaos on Jupiter's icy moon
Credit image: Britney E. Schmidt & Deadpixel VFX/Jackson School of Geosciences/UTIG/Vetlesen Foundation/NASA.
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/479/issues/7374
#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #solarsystem #europa #geology #chaos #geomorphology #jupiter #moon #satellite #galileo #spacecraft
An intriguing cover for this 2003 issue of Nature, featuring a dodecahedral space topology and this question:
Is this the shape of the Universe?
☑️ The research paper: https://nature.com/articles/nature01944
☑️ A News & Views article: https://nature.com/articles/425566a
☑️ The full issue: https://www.nature.com/nature/volumes/425/issues/6958
#universe #cosmology #topology #curvature #cmb #wmap #bigbang #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research
Nature Journal astronomy covers: an appreciation post
SKYFALL (2013) - featuring a simulation of the Chelyabinsk fireball, by Mark Boslough
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/503/issues/7475
The fireball that streaked across the skies above #Chelyabinsk in #Russia on 15 February 2013 is providing #astronomers with a wealth of #information. Two papers in this issue present detailed reconstructions of the Chelyabinsk event.
#asteroid #fireball #astronomy #astrodon #nature #cover #naturecovers #space #science #universe
Astronomy covers of the Nature Journal
Remaking the Moon (2013)
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/504/issues/7478
Featuring a Comment paper "Planetary science: Lunar conspiracies" by Robin Canup and a News & Views article "Shadows cast on Moon's origin" by Tim Elliott and Sarah T. Stewart
https://www.nature.com/articles/504027a
https://www.nature.com/articles/504090a
#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #earth #moon #geochemistry
Nature Journal astronomy covers
Jupiter revisited (2018) - Juno mission offers a fresh perspective on the gas giant
Featuring a stunning view of the central cyclone at the planet's north pole and the eight cyclones that encircle it.
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/555/issues/7695
Credit image: NASA/SWRI/JPL/ASI/INAF/IAPS
#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #solarsystem #jupiter #cyclone #cyclones #juno #spacecraft #nasa #planet #planets
Nature Journal astronomy covers appreciation post
Generating Large-Scale Structure in the Universe (1990)
Also: Probing Io's atmosphere
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/346/issues/6285
Feature article by Melott & Shandarin: https://www.nature.com/articles/346633a0
#cosmology #simulations #darkmatter #gravitation #physics #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research #galaxies #cosmicweb #voids #filaments
Nature Journal astronomy covers
The Search for a Sister Earth (2006) - Designing a telescope to find our next Solar System
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/442/issues/7098
#universe #planet #planets #exoplanet #exoplanets #planethunting #earth #solarsystem #star #stars #simulation #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #art #coverart #covers #naturecovers #space #nwo #newworld #newworlds #telescope #spacetelescope #coronograph #science #research #nasa #jwst
Nature Journal astronomy covers
PLANET SUITE (2017) - Seven potential Earth-like worlds orbiting low-mass star TRAPPIST-1
Cover art: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Robert Hurt (IPAC).
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/542/issues/7642
#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #trappist #trappist-1 #planet #planets #exoplanet #exoplanets #planethunting #earth #star #stars #nature #cover #art #coverart #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research
Nature Journal astronomy covers appreciation post
Weighing a Galaxy (1990)
Featuring the Einstein ring of MG1654+1346, a radio quasar in near-perfect alignment with a foreground elliptical galaxy, which acts as a gravitational lens.
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/344/issues/6261
#universe #galaxies #radio #quasar #einstein #ring #galaxy #galaxies #gravitation #gravitationallens #cosmology #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research
Nature Journal astronomy covers - 1995
A planet in Pegasus?
The feature article reports the discovery of the 1st extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi, by Michel Mayor & Didier Queloz, a discovery that will earn them the Nobel Prize in 2019
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/378/issues/6555
#universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #51pegasi #planet #exoplanet #exoplanets #planethunting #nobel #prize #nobelprize #stars #nature #cover #art #coverart #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research
Nature Journal astronomy covers appreciation post
Winds of change (2003) - Images of Saturn reveal circulation slowdown
☑️ full issue: https://nature.com/nature/volumes/423/issues/6940
☑️ open-access feature article "A strong decrease in Saturn's equatorial jet at cloud level" by Agustín Sánchez-Lavega and co-authors: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature01653
☑️ see also the press release for more insights: http://www.ajax.ehu.es/grupo/Nature/Press.English.html
#saturn #wind #winds #planets #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #universe #hubble #space #science #research
Nature Journal astronomy covers: 1993
The footprint of dark matter?
Feature articles on gravitational microlensing by dark objects by two collaborations: MACHO and EROS + News & Views paper "In search of the halo grail" by Craig J. Hogan
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/365/issues/6447
#darkmatter #machos #macho #eros #galaxy #milkyway #galaxies #lmc #star #stars #lensing #microlensing #universe #cosmology #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #nature #cover #naturecover
Nature Journal astronomy covers appreciation post
Out of the shadows (2014) - Six centuries of solar eclipse art
Feature essay by J. Pasachoff and R. Olson on how artists from the early Renaissance onwards have interpreted the phenomenon.
Art by Howard Russell Butler. Credit: Princeton University Art Museum/Art Resource NY/Scala, Florence.
https://nature.com/nature/volumes/508/issues/7496
#solareclipse #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #space #science #art #sun #moon
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
Nature Journal astronomy covers
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.
Nature Journal astronomy covers appreciation post
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
Nature Journal astronomy covers appreciation post
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
Nature Journal astronomy covers appreciation post
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
Nature Journal astronomy covers appreciation post
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
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