nature-astronomy
Use when targeting Nature Astronomy (Nat Astron) or deciding whether an astronomy or astrophysics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill nature-astronomy --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Nature Astronomy (nature-astronomy) ## Journal positioning Nature Astronomy is a Springer Nature journal covering the full breadth of astronomy, astrophysics, and planetary science, publishing results whose conceptual significance extends well beyond a single sub-field. The readership spans the entire astronomical community plus interested physical scientists, so results must be framed for an audience that is expert but may not be specialists in the narrow technique or object class. The journal competes with Nature, Science, and Cell for papers that define or redirect a field; incremental advances or purely archival catalogues do not belong here. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Springer Nature submission portal. ## When to trigger - The author names Nature Astronomy or Nat Astron as the target venue. - A manuscript reports a conceptual first — a new class of object, a new physical mechanism, or a result that forces revision of an established picture — and the author is weighing it against Nature, Science, or the-ast
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the nature-astronomy skill do?
Use when targeting Nature Astronomy (Nat Astron) or deciding whether an astronomy or astrophysics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill nature-astronomy --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.