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.
Beside the research paper associated to this cover, this issue of Nature also features a News & Views article "Interplanetary kidnap" by Alessandro Morbidelli.
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.
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.
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
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
Anatomy of a kilonova (2017) - Aftermath of the merger between two neutron stars, initially observed in the form of the gravitational waves event GW170817.
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.
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.
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.
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.
📷 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.
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