Every issue All About Space delivers fascinating articles and features on all aspects of space and space travel with mind-blowing photography and full-colour illustrations that bring the amazing universe around us to life.
WELCOME • Issue 110
5 ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS
LAUNCH PAD • YOUR FIRST CONTACT WITH THE UNIVERSE
Physicists attempt to break the rules of gravity
Six galaxies found trapped around a supermassive black hole
Star is seen being shredded by ‘spaghettification’
Asteroid Bennu’s boulders shed new light on the space rock’s history
‘Superflares’ may make it hard for life to begin around dwarf stars
Cosmonauts patch air leak on the ISS
IS THERE LIFE ON VENUS? • A discovery in the cloud decks of the hostile planet could be the smoking gun for astrobiologists
EARTH VS VENUS • Sometimes called ‘Earth’s Twin’, Venus is in fact a very different world to ours
HOW THE DETECTION WAS MADE • Two observatories in Hawaii and Chile were used to find phosphine’s spectral signature
WHAT COULD THE FUTURE HOLD FOR THE EXPLORATION OF VENUS? • With this recharged interest in Venus, here are some upcoming mission ideas that could return even more groundbreaking results
THE ASTROBIOLOGIST’S HIT LIST
ATHLETE • If we are to settle on other planets in the Solar System, we will need machines for heavy lifting in all manner of environments. NASA is working on such a robot already
“WE WOULD NOT HAVE GONE TO THE MOON WITHOUT PROJECT MERCURY” • With an exciting new series about Project Mercury landing on Disney+, All About Space speaks to the show’s technical consultant, Robert Yowell, about bringing his space engineering expertise to the show
National Geographic: The Right Stuff
WHAT’S BEHIND THE WOW! SIGNAL? • FOR OVER 40 YEARS ASTRONOMERS HAVE SOUGHT TO EXPLAIN A MYSTERLOUS ONE-OFF ALIEN SIGNAL BUT ARE WE NOW FINALLY CLOSE TO AN ANSWER?
SUPERGIANT GALAXIES • CLASSED AS SOME OF THE MOST MASSIVE OBJECTS IN THE UNIVERSE, THESE COSMIC BEHEMOTHS ARE ALSO THE MOST MYSTERIOUS
HOW BIG GALAXIES ARE MADE • Giant galaxies and other massive ellipticals go through a series of changes on their way to becoming the monsters of the present-day universe
SIZING UP GALAXIES • Most of the largest structures are elliptical but there are some notable exceptions
A WEIRD WORLD AROUND A WARPED STAR • The spacecraft CHEOPS has categorised a strange new exoplanet with an odd orbit
THE HUNT FOR WORMHOLES • Usually confined to the pages of science fiction, astronomers are ‘ starting to think, these portals through’ space-time -might be real after all
WHAT IS A WORMHOLE? • There’s more than one type of shortcut for long journeys across and beyond the universe
WHERE SCIENTISTS THINK WORMHOLES MIGHT EXIST • Where these portals through space-time could be hiding
HOW WORMHOLES ARE MADE • If these space-time tunnels do exist, what would they look like and how would they come into existence?
HOW DO WE KNOW IF WE’VE FOUND A WORMHOLE? • There are several clues to look out for if we find a candidate for a space-time portal
IF THEY EXIST, COULD WE TRAVEL THROUGH A WORMHOLE?
SCIENTISTS SPOT MAGNETARS’ MISSING LINK • These magnetic stars might be more like pulsars than originally suspected
SHEDDING LIGHT ON PHANTOM ENERGY AND THE DARK SIDE OF THE UNIVERSE • Understanding the ‘undetectable’ cosmos could well lead to significant changes in some highly cherished theories that govern space-time
PHANTOM ENERGY AND THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE • This mysterious form of dark energy could very well cause our cosmos to end by being torn apart
DARK MATTER’S RADIATION AND GRAVITY • Whatever comprises dark...