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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
5 ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS
LAUNCH PAD • YOUR FIRST CONTACT WITH THE UNIVERSE
Planetary protection needs more than just NASA, White House plan says
The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilisations
Mysterious meteoroid-spitting asteroid found in Solar System
Giant black hole keeps evading detection
Neptune’s dark storm reverses direction
Scientists spot farthest galaxy yet
SECRETS OF MARS • HOW A NEW FLEET OF MISSIONS WILL HELP US TO SOLVE THE RED PLANET’S MYSTERIES
INSIDE THE RED PLANET • Recent research has been unearthing some juicy secrets beneath Mars’ surface
WATER ON MARS
2021 ONWARDS: PLANS FOR STUDYING THE RED PLANET
ULTIMATELY LARGE TELESCOPE ON THE MOON • With a big enough telescope, we could look back to the first stars – and from another world
“THERE’S NOTHING MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE ABOUT BEING A SCIENTIST” • All About Space talks to the astrophysicist and YouTube sensation about life, the universe and everything
RISE OF THE EXOPLANET HUNTER • The next generation of alien-world-seeking spacecraft will revolutionise our understanding of distant planets
THE ARIEL MISSION • Inside the planet explorer that could transform exoplanet science
ARIEL’S OBJECTIVES • The main aims of the ESA’s new exoplanet explorer
HOW TO CHARACTERISE AN EXOPLANET • Ariel uses a well-established and effective method to study exoplanets
ARIEL’S OBSERVING SPOT • The space observatory’s home is perfectly positioned for searching for alien worlds.
MEET THE EXOPLANET HUNTERS • The current and future spacecraft that will search for and characterise strange worlds in this decade and beyond
STAR PROFILE Sirius • The ‘Dog Star’ hasn’t been around very long in cosmic terms
TESTING EINSTEIN • How attempting to break the theory of general relativity has migrated beyond the limits of the Milky Way
HOW DO WE TEST GENERAL RELATIVITY? • Testing the theory often means studying objects of tremendous masses only found in deep space
WHAT IS THE FERMI PARADOX?
A NEW VIEW OF THE MILKY WAY • A DYNAMIC, COMPLICATED, BUBBLE-BLOWING WILD CHILD: MEET OUR GALAXY ALL OVER AGAIN
MILKY WAY BY NUMBERS
THE GAIA SPACECRAFT • Gaia will target each object 70 times, making the most accurate 3D Milky Way map ever
RESULTS FROM GAIA • Gaia’s latest data release in 2020 revealed a few things never seen before
OUR MILKY WAY’S NEW FAMILY TREE • Starting as a collection of clusters, the Milky Way consumed its neighbours
COLLISIONS OF THE MILKY WAY • The galaxy is constantly colliding with its neighbours – something that’ll continue far into the future
CHINA OPENS LARGEST RADIO TELESCOPE UP TO THE WORLD • Following the collapse of the historic Arecibo Observatory, China has made the Five-hundred- meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) available to international scientists
FAILED STARS & SUPER- JUPITERS • THE STRANGE CELESTIAL OBJECTS THAT DON’T MAKE THE CUT AS EITHER PLANETS OR STARS
SEPARATING THE PLANETS FROM THE STARS • MORE MASSIVE AND HOTTER THAN MOST PLANETS, BUT LIGHTER AND COOLER THAN STARS
TYPES OF BROWN DWARF • The different classes and colours of these cool stars
THE MAKING OF AN EPIC FAIL • What happens when collapsing clouds of gas and dust don’t make it as stars
BROWN DWARF DISCOVERY • NASA’s WISE telescope is an expert when it comes to hunting down brown dwarfs
THE STRANGE YELLOW...
