All About Space

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

Two floating robots meet

Hubble spies a spiral

Moon with a view

Webb takes its first view of the cosmos

Europe’s Mars rover is now unlikely to launch before 2026 after Russia’s war on Ukraine

5,000 exoplanets: NASA confirms a big milestone for planetary science

Comet Leonard breaks into pieces as it rounds the Sun

SpaceX’s new Dragon capsule gets a name

China plans to open its Tiangong space station for tourism within a decade

VIXEN POLARIE STAR TRACKER • Courtesy of Opticron, this month we’re giving away kit to assist with your astrophotography

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

IN-FLIGHT EXPLORATION • To explore another planet faster than a rover and in more detail than a satellite, we need to fly, and the best way to do it may be to copy birds

BIO

“IT WAS A DIFFICULT MISSION… WE WERE THE FIRST TO SEE MIR” • Having served as both the first female pilot and first female commander of NASA’s Space Shuttle, Eileen Collins boosted the involvement of women in space exploration to a whole new level

VIRGIN ORBIT TARGETS SUMMER FOR ITS FIRST ORBITAL LAUNCH • The California-based company has three straight successful orbital missions under its belt

Hubble Space Telescope • With 30 years of service under its belt, the long-serving mission remains one of the greatest and most influential cosmic lenses

Anatomy of the Hubble Space Telescope • The spacecraft’s instruments have stood the test of time as it gazes deep into our Solar System and beyond

Servicing an observatory

Head to head Hubble vs Chandra

Vital statistics

Establish a space telescope

Wide Field Camera 3: Hubble’s advanced eye

Venus

HOW HIGH UP ARE EARTH’S GROUND-BASED TELESCOPES? • Large observatories are generally built at high altitudes to reduce the effects of the atmosphere that can spoil our view of the universe

WELCOME TO THE STELLAR AFTERLIFE • They’re hot, they’re small and technically they’re dead. Meet the stellar remnants that have a multimillion-year-long tale to tell

PERSEVERANCE SNAGS ITS SEVENTH MARTIAN ROCK SAMPLE

WHERE HAVE THESE GIANT FILAMENTS COME FROM? • Mysterious magnetic filaments have been found at the heart of the Milky Way, but astronomers are still trying to discover their origin

BLACK HOLE BILLIARDS

EXOPLANETS

HUNT FOR LIFE

SOLAR SYSTEM

ASTRONOMY

What’s a photon sphere?

ASTROPHYSICS

SPACE EXPLORATION

ASTROPHYSICS

POSSIBLE EARTHLIKE PLANET IN A DEAD STAR’S HABITABLE ZONE

12 ASTRONOMY TUTORIALS TO MASTER

Make the most of earthshine

Be prepared for an ISS pass

Capture the milky way galaxy

Shoot summer’s Noctilucent clouds

Take planet images with your phone

Snap the stunning phases of Venus

BEST ACCESSORIES FOR YOUR TELESCOPE • From beating light pollution to superb visuals of the planets and galaxies, Celestron has everything you need for superb views of the night sky

What’s in the sky?

This month’s planets • Mars shines in the dawn sky alongside the majority of the Solar System’s outer gas planets

MARE CRISIUM

NAKED EYE & BINOCULAR TARGETS

The Realm of the Galaxies

THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

Astroshots of the month • Get featured in All About Space by sending your astrophotography images to space@spaceanswers.com

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