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  1. A lovely, vintage 1968 cover of Science Magazine to celebrate the international #ObserveTheMoon night, featuring a lunar gravimetric map of the earthside hemisphere, obtained by the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft tracking data.

    science.org/toc/science/161/38

    #moon #gravimetry #map #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #universe #space #science #research #cover #sciencecovers #lunarorbiter #spacecraft

  2. The Arecibo Telescope makes the cover of this 1964 issue of Science Magazine.

    Feature article by William E. Gordon, the father of the Arecibo Observatory, describing the recently completed instruments and its science goals.

    science.org/toc/science/146/36

    #arecibo #telescope #radiotelescope #observatory #puertorico #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #cover #covers #sciencecovers #research

  3. Science Magazine astronomy covers appreciation post

    BLACK HOLES (2012) - Featuring an illustration of the black hole in Cygnus X-1, a binary star system 6000 light-years away.

    Credit image: NASA/Chandra X-ray Center/M. Weiss

    science.org/toc/science/337/60

    #universe #astronomy #blackhole #blackholes #nasa #chandra #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #cover #sciencecovers #research

  4. Science Magazine astronomy covers

    Supernova 1987A

    Before (left) and after (right) photos taken using the 3.9-meter Anglo-Australian Telescope show the star that exploded and the supernova shortly after outburst. Credits: David Malin.

    science.org/toc/science/240/48

    #supernova #sn1987a #star #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #telescope #space #science #cover #sciencecovers #research

  5. 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.

    science.org/toc/science/257/50

    #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #sciencecovers #jupiter #ulysses #spacecraft #rendezvous #io #aurora #dusk #solarsystem #exploration #nasa #jpl

  6. 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.

    science.org/toc/science/213/45

    📷 by René Racine
    ✍️ feature article by Larkin Kerwin, President of the National Research Council of Canada: science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

    #science #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #telescope #cfht #canada #france #hawaii #maunakea #observatory #maunakeaobservatory #sciencecovers #covers #research

  7. 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

    science.org/toc/science/354/63

    #moon #crater #topography #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #universe #grail #spacecraft #nasa #lunarcraters #craters #visualization

  8. 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: science.org/toc/science/138/35

    #universe #cosmology #physics #geophysics #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #galaxy #galaxies

  9. 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.

    science.org/toc/science/272/52

    #universe #saturn #saturnrings #darkside #hubble #nasa #nasahubble #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #planets #planet #solarsystem

  10. 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

    science.org/toc/science/376/65

    ➡️ the feature article by Joshua Sokol science.org/content/article/wh

    #maya #astronomy #archeology #chichenitza #mexico #zunil #guatemala #stargazers #stargazing #sun #astrodon #science #cover #covers #sciencecovers #research

  11. 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

    science.org/toc/science/376/65

    ➡️ the feature article by Joshua Sokol science.org/content/article/wh

    #maya #astronomy #archeology #chichenitza #mexico #zunil #guatemala #stargazers #stargazing #sun #astrodon #science #cover #covers #sciencecovers #research

  12. 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

    science.org/toc/science/376/65

    ➡️ the feature article by Joshua Sokol science.org/content/article/wh

    #maya #astronomy #archeology #chichenitza #mexico #zunil #guatemala #stargazers #stargazing #sun #astrodon #science #cover #covers #sciencecovers #research

  13. 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

    science.org/toc/science/376/65

    ➡️ the feature article by Joshua Sokol science.org/content/article/wh

    #maya #astronomy #archeology #chichenitza #mexico #zunil #guatemala #stargazers #stargazing #sun #astrodon #science #cover #covers #sciencecovers #research

  14. 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

    science.org/toc/science/376/65

    ➡️ the feature article by Joshua Sokol science.org/content/article/wh

    #maya #astronomy #archeology #chichenitza #mexico #zunil #guatemala #stargazers #stargazing #sun #astrodon #science #cover #covers #sciencecovers #research

  15. 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!

    science.org/toc/science/304/56
    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

  16. 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

    science.org/toc/science/256/50

    #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #science #cover #covers #sciencecovers #space #research #ligo #observatory #gravitationalwave #laser #interferometer #experiment #relativity #generalrelativity #physics

  17. 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.

    science.org/toc/science/319/58

    #cosmology #cosmicweb #astronomy #astrodon #space #sciencecovers

  18. 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

    science.org/toc/science/175/40

    #nasa #moon #apollo #apollo15 #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #sciencecovers

  19. 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
    science.org/toc/science/330/60

    #exoplanets #kepler #spacecraft #kepler-9 #nasa #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #sciencecovers

  20. 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.

    science.org/toc/science/238/48

    #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #telescope #observatory #universe #science #sciencecovers #phd #phdlife #research #arizona

  21. 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.

    science.org/toc/science/353/63

    #universe #ceres #dwarfplanet #dawn #spacecraft #dawnspacecraft #nasa #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #planets #planet #solarsystem #cryovolcanism #crater #craters

  22. 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.

    science.org/toc/science/353/63

    #universe #ceres #dwarfplanet #dawn #spacecraft #dawnspacecraft #nasa #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #planets #planet #solarsystem #cryovolcanism #crater #craters

  23. 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.

    science.org/toc/science/353/63

    #universe #ceres #dwarfplanet #dawn #spacecraft #dawnspacecraft #nasa #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #planets #planet #solarsystem #cryovolcanism #crater #craters

  24. 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.

    science.org/toc/science/353/63

    #universe #ceres #dwarfplanet #dawn #spacecraft #dawnspacecraft #nasa #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #planets #planet #solarsystem #cryovolcanism #crater #craters

  25. 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.

    science.org/toc/science/353/63

    #universe #ceres #dwarfplanet #dawn #spacecraft #dawnspacecraft #nasa #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #sciencecovers #cover #covers #research #planets #planet #solarsystem #cryovolcanism #crater #craters

  26. 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.

    science.org/toc/science/158/38

    #cosmology #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #bigbang #theory #galaxies #science #sciencecovers