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All About Space

No. 117
Magazine

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

NEW AUGMENTED REALITY

LAUNCH PAD • YOUR FIRST CONTACT WITH THE UNIVERSE

NASA’S PERSEVERANCE MAKES OXYGEN ON MARS FOR THE FIRST TIME

TINY NEWFOUND ‘UNICORN’ IS CLOSEST KNOWN BLACK HOLE TO EARTH

SPACEX COULD LAND ASTRONAUTS ON THE MOON IN 2024, SAYS ELON MUSK

PROXIMA CENTAURI SHOOTS OUT HUMONGOUS FLARE, WITH BIG IMPLICATIONS FOR ALIEN LIFE

CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ALTERED THE EARTH’S TILT

NEWFOUND SUPER-EARTH HAS A SPEEDY ORBIT AROUND A RED DWARF

HUNT FOR THE UNIVERSE’SMISSING STARS • An international team of astronomers is on the hunt for objects that should be impossible

WHAT COULD THE ‘MISSING STARS’ BE? • Here are some of the potential explanations

MISSING STARS AND ALIEN ENGINEERS • Could VASCO’s disappearing stars really be signs of aliens? We asked astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch

CURIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING STARS • These mosaics showing the sky at different times reveal candidates

HELP FEED FUTURE ASTRONAUTS • Space agencies need your assistance to keep spacefarers healthy on long-duration missions

ROTATING SPACE STATION • They’re a staple of science fiction, but a Californian company is planning to finally make them a reality

THE BOUNDARIES OF QUANTUM PHYSICS • Jeremias Pfaff speaks to All About Space about what it takes to measure gravity on such a minute scale. The next step? To go even smaller

FORGOTTEN PLANS TO REACH THE MOON • BEFORE APOLLO, MANY INGENIOUS LUNAR LANDING SCHEMES WERE PROPOSED THAT COULD HAVE CHANGED HISTORY

THE SCRAPPED PROJECTS • The US Air Force, Army and private contractors produced these major studies before NASA took charge

RISE OF VERA RUBIN’S SUPER OBSERVATORY • Astronomy’s new era will be defined by a wider and deeper view of the universe

WHAT WILL THE RUBIN OBSERVATORY DO?

VERA C. RUBIN OBSERVATORY BY NUMBERS

THE VERA C. RUBIN OBSERVATORY • Examining the universe in unparalleled depth requires an extraordinary telescope and a special location

IS OUR SUN GOING INTO HIBERNATION? • Each sunspot cycle has been getting less intense. Is our star falling asleep?

ON CYCLE 25 • Solar scientist Madhulika Guhathakurta gives her personal view of our current solar cycle

10 AMAZING VOLCANOES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM • Explore these violent openings into the inner workings and origins of the planets and their moons

FOUND! SAFEST PLACE TO LIVE IN THE MILKY WAY • Astronomers have searched our galaxy to identify the safest places to live. As it turns out, we’re in a pretty good spot

HOW TO SPOT A FAKE SPACE PHOTO • REVEAL IF THAT SENSATIONAL IMAGE IS REAL OR A FRAUD WITH ALL ABOUT SPACE’S TOP TIPS

PLANET PROFILE EARTH • The rocky world that we call home is full of wonders

IS THE UNIVERSE CONSCIOUS? • PERHAPS THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ARE NOT ENOUGH TO EXPLAIN REALITY

A CONSCIOUS UNIVERSE BY NUMBERS

IS PARANEGO’S DISCONTINUITY PROOF OF A CONSCIOUS UNIVERSE? • Physicist Gregory Matloff suggests the behaviour of some stars could show they are responding consciously to stimuli

PUTTING CONSCIOUSNESS BACK INTO THE COSMOS • Dr Philip Goff, a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham University, thinks everything in the physical world has a degree of consciousness. He’s the author of Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness

THE THEORIES • Just what could consciousness be?

ASK Space • Our experts answer your...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 100 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: No. 117

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: May 20, 2021

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OverDrive Magazine

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Science

Languages

English

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

NEW AUGMENTED REALITY

LAUNCH PAD • YOUR FIRST CONTACT WITH THE UNIVERSE

NASA’S PERSEVERANCE MAKES OXYGEN ON MARS FOR THE FIRST TIME

TINY NEWFOUND ‘UNICORN’ IS CLOSEST KNOWN BLACK HOLE TO EARTH

SPACEX COULD LAND ASTRONAUTS ON THE MOON IN 2024, SAYS ELON MUSK

PROXIMA CENTAURI SHOOTS OUT HUMONGOUS FLARE, WITH BIG IMPLICATIONS FOR ALIEN LIFE

CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ALTERED THE EARTH’S TILT

NEWFOUND SUPER-EARTH HAS A SPEEDY ORBIT AROUND A RED DWARF

HUNT FOR THE UNIVERSE’SMISSING STARS • An international team of astronomers is on the hunt for objects that should be impossible

WHAT COULD THE ‘MISSING STARS’ BE? • Here are some of the potential explanations

MISSING STARS AND ALIEN ENGINEERS • Could VASCO’s disappearing stars really be signs of aliens? We asked astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch

CURIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING STARS • These mosaics showing the sky at different times reveal candidates

HELP FEED FUTURE ASTRONAUTS • Space agencies need your assistance to keep spacefarers healthy on long-duration missions

ROTATING SPACE STATION • They’re a staple of science fiction, but a Californian company is planning to finally make them a reality

THE BOUNDARIES OF QUANTUM PHYSICS • Jeremias Pfaff speaks to All About Space about what it takes to measure gravity on such a minute scale. The next step? To go even smaller

FORGOTTEN PLANS TO REACH THE MOON • BEFORE APOLLO, MANY INGENIOUS LUNAR LANDING SCHEMES WERE PROPOSED THAT COULD HAVE CHANGED HISTORY

THE SCRAPPED PROJECTS • The US Air Force, Army and private contractors produced these major studies before NASA took charge

RISE OF VERA RUBIN’S SUPER OBSERVATORY • Astronomy’s new era will be defined by a wider and deeper view of the universe

WHAT WILL THE RUBIN OBSERVATORY DO?

VERA C. RUBIN OBSERVATORY BY NUMBERS

THE VERA C. RUBIN OBSERVATORY • Examining the universe in unparalleled depth requires an extraordinary telescope and a special location

IS OUR SUN GOING INTO HIBERNATION? • Each sunspot cycle has been getting less intense. Is our star falling asleep?

ON CYCLE 25 • Solar scientist Madhulika Guhathakurta gives her personal view of our current solar cycle

10 AMAZING VOLCANOES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM • Explore these violent openings into the inner workings and origins of the planets and their moons

FOUND! SAFEST PLACE TO LIVE IN THE MILKY WAY • Astronomers have searched our galaxy to identify the safest places to live. As it turns out, we’re in a pretty good spot

HOW TO SPOT A FAKE SPACE PHOTO • REVEAL IF THAT SENSATIONAL IMAGE IS REAL OR A FRAUD WITH ALL ABOUT SPACE’S TOP TIPS

PLANET PROFILE EARTH • The rocky world that we call home is full of wonders

IS THE UNIVERSE CONSCIOUS? • PERHAPS THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ARE NOT ENOUGH TO EXPLAIN REALITY

A CONSCIOUS UNIVERSE BY NUMBERS

IS PARANEGO’S DISCONTINUITY PROOF OF A CONSCIOUS UNIVERSE? • Physicist Gregory Matloff suggests the behaviour of some stars could show they are responding consciously to stimuli

PUTTING CONSCIOUSNESS BACK INTO THE COSMOS • Dr Philip Goff, a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham University, thinks everything in the physical world has a degree of consciousness. He’s the author of Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness

THE THEORIES • Just what could consciousness be?

ASK Space • Our experts answer your...


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