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
LAUNCH PAD • YOUR FIRST CONTACT WITH THE UNIVERSE
PERSEVERANCE CONFIRMS EXISTENCE OF ANCIENT MARS LAKE AND RIVER DELTA
BLUE ORIGIN LAUNCHES WILLIAM SHATNER AND CREW OF THREE TO THE FINAL FRONTIER
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER SHAPED GROUNDBREAKING EARTH-OBSERVING MISSION
NASA IS READY TO TAKE ON THE WORLD WITH ITS NEW CLIMATE ACTION PLAN
MOON ROCKS BROUGHT TO EARTH BY CHINESE MISSION FILL KEY GAPS IN HISTORY
THE OLDEST GAMMA-RAY BURST EVER DISCOVERED WAS JUST A PIECE OF SPACE JUNK
12 EARTH CRATERS to visit now • EARTH-SHATTERING SIGHTS YOU CAN VISIT IN PERSON OR FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME
SPACECRAFT MAGNETOSPHERES • For humans to spread out across the Solar System, we need practical protection from solar and cosmic radiation on long voyages
“IT’S A WONDERFUL, DYNAMIC PROCESS OF HUMAN DISCOVERY” • All About Space speaks with Brian Greene to discuss how our understanding of the universe around us is always evolving
ANCIENT MARS WAS ROCKED BY VIOLENT, CLIMATE-CHANGING VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS • Supereruptions regularly tore up the surface of the Red Planet billions of years ago
THE LIFE OF A BRILLIANT PHYSICIST • EINSTEIN’S THEORIES CHANGED THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT THE UNIVERSE
BLUFFER’S GUIDE TO EINSTEIN’S THEORIES OF GENERAL AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY
EINSTEIN TIMELINE
FIVE THINGS EINSTEIN’S THEORIES CORRECTLY PREDICTED
PHILOSOPHICAL LEANINGS
MYSTERY OF EMPTY-SKY BURSTS CRACKED • Scientists finally have an explanation for the most energetic explosions in the universe
ARE WE CLOSER TO REVEALING THE SECRETS OF PLANET FORMATION? • Data gathered by a host of radio dishes perched high in the Chilean desert teases apart the mysteries of how worlds form
DO PARALLEL UNIVERSES EXIST? • SCIENCE FICTION LOVES A GOOD MULTIVERSE STORY. BUT COULD WE REALLY BE IN ONE?
HOW A MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHER DREAMED UP THE ‘MULTIVERSE’
HOW TO BUILD A MULTIVERSE • Could black holes birth new universes?
WELCOME TO THE MULTIVERSE
WHAT HAPPENS IN OTHER UNIVERSES? • Physicists have contemplated different levels of multiverse
2021’S GIANT OZONE HOLE LIKELY DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE • The new Antarctic ozone hole is still growing in size
OUR MISSIONS TO THE MOON • HOW SPACECRAFT HAVE HELPED US PAVE THE WAY IN EXPLORING OUR NEAREST NEIGHBOUR
WHAT NEXT?
WHAT CAN WE DO WITH A CAPTURED ASTEROID? • Asteroids could provide us with rare resources
BRINGING HOME THE GOODS
DOES OUR MILKY WAY HAVE ANOTHER ARM? • ASTRONOMERS IN CHINA HAVE OBSERVED A LARGE FILAMENT OF GAS AND DUST AT THE OUTER EDGE OF OUR GALAXY, BUT WHAT MIGHT IT BE?
CATTAIL BY NUMBERS
FAST RESULTS • China’s massive telescope took five years to complete, but it’s made a speedy impact
WHAT COULD CATTAIL BE? • The theories for this huge newfound structure
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES TO LAUNCH ASTEROID MISSION IN 2028 • After the success of Hope, a new craft will explore targets in the asteroid belt
ASK Space • Our experts answer your questions
BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO STARGAZING WITH BINOCULARS • GET A NEW PERSPECTIVE OF THE JEWELS OF THE NIGHT SKY BY OBSERVING WITH BINOCULARS
HOW TO…
TOP TIPS FOR BUYING BINOCULARS FOR KIDS
BEST OBJECTS TO VIEW TONIGHT
WHAT’S IN THE SKY?
THIS MONTH’S PLANETS • Mercury takes pride of place in the dawn sky from November, but take care observing it as we head into December
MARE CRISIUM (SEA OF CRISES) •...