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 1 30
Shadow of Jupiter’s moon
Hubble celebrates 32nd anniversary
As cool as ice
Meteorites could have brought DNA to Earth
Two giant marsquakes rock Mars’ far side
Overlooked gravitational-wave signals point to ‘exotic’ black holes
Large Hadron Collider hits world-record proton acceleration
ARE WE IN A CHAOTIC UNIVERSE? • Do we finally have a handle on chaos theory and how it influences the world around us?
FLEET LANDERS
“Everybody in the space world was watching” • The only Dutch astronaut to fly into space twice, Kuipers also berthed a private spacecraft with the ISS for the first time
DYING RED GIANT SEEN BLOWING SMOKE RINGS • Two telescopes charted the structure of a star about to die in unprecedented detail
TITAN • Saturn’s biggest moon is a harsh, uninhabitable world, yet has uncanny similarities to our home planet
HUBBLE SPOTS ITS MOST DISTANT STAR YET
HOW FAR HAVE OUR MESSAGES TO SPACE TRAVELLED?
CONQUERING SPACE JUNK • Should we be worried about the debris we’re leaving in orbit?
COMETS FADE NEAR SATURN’S ORBIT
BEYOND THE SOLAR SYSTEM • Five of NASA’s spacecraft are heading beyond our solar neighbourhood. What will they find?
OUR SATELLITE’S STARS SHED LIGHT ON GALAXY FORMATION • Mapping of the Large Magellanic Cloud reveals starry secrets
SOLVING THE SUN’S BURNING MYSTERY • Scientists have spent decades trying to figure out why the Sun’s atmosphere heats to extreme temperatures
ASTEROID IMPACT UNLIKELY UNTIL 2880 • Earthlings can breathe a little easier for the next 800 years
ASK SPACE
MONEY-SAVING TIPS FOR BUYING A TELESCOPE • Get the best price for your new instrument by shopping smart with these handy tips
WHEN IS THE BEST TIME OF YEAR TO BUY A TELESCOPE?
WHAT’S IN THE SKY?
PLANETARIUM
THIS MONTH’S PLANETS • Venus takes pride of place in the morning sky alongside the rest of the Solar System’s worlds
RUPES RECTA: THE STRAIGHT WALL
HIDDEN WONDERS OF HERCULES • There’s more to this constellation than Messier 13, the most beautiful globular cluster in the northern sky
THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
ASTROSHOTS OF THE MONTH
ZWO ASI183MC PRO • This CMOS camera offers high-end features in an affordable package, but how does it perform under the night sky?
IN THE SHOPS
ENRICO FERMI