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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
Early days of star formation
New view of the Cone Nebula
Turbulent times in a stellar nursery
Cosmic leftovers reveal that galactic cannibal Andromeda feasts on smaller galaxies
NASA awards Texas company $57 million for a lunar construction system
A lab -grown black hole may prove Stephen Hawking’s most challenging theory right
China completes the world’s largest solar telescope array, with a whopping 313 dishes
Futureplc
UNMISSABLE SPACE EVENTS 2023
ASTEROID NETS
“All missions are unique and interesting” • The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing for its first-ever mission to Jupiter’s moons. All About Space speaks to the mission’s project scientist, Olivier Witasse, to find out why the Galilean satellites are so appealing
NASA’S PERSEVERANCE ROVER OPENS A WINDOW TO MARS’ WATERY PAST • The Perseverance rover is approaching its one-year anniversary since landing on 18 February 2021
DARK ENERGY? • The universe’s expansion is accelerating under the influence of a mysterious force, but could this emerge from multiple sources?
DOES THE SUN STAY STILL IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM?
GAIA • For nine years, this Milky Way mapper has pinpointed over a billion stars to create an expansive dataset
A LOPSIDED STAR CLUSTER MAY DISPROVE NEWTON AND EINSTEIN’S THEORIES • An uneven distribution of stars in several nearby clusters may offer evidence of MOND – acontroversial theory of gravity that rejects the existence of dark matter
LIVES OF THE ANIMAL ASTRONAUTS
X-RAY VIEW SHOWS HOW SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES SPEED UP PARTICLES IN JETS
UNRAVELLING ANCIENT SOL AR SYSTEMS • The discovery of a white dwarf with high levels of lithium and potassium has provided fresh insights into early planet formation
Do smaller stars generally host smaller planets?
What Earth-like features does Titan have?
How do we know the universe’s age?
How close would a supernova have to be to destroy life?
Why are there no gas moons?
What exists outside our observable cosmos?
What do radio observations reveal about the centre of the Milky Way?
Future
FOUR DIGITAL EDITIONS OF HISTORY OF WAR
ASTROPHOT FOR BEGINNERS TOGRAPHY
KNOW YOUR EQUIPMENT • There’s nothing worse than being unprepared on your first venture into astrophotography. Whether you’re picking a suitable dark site or choosing which equipment you need to take along, you’re very likely to get frustrated without preparation. Before you get trigger-happy with the shutter, ensure you’re ready to turn your lens to the night sky.
PLAN YOUR SHOOT
GET A STAR-PACKED IMAGE
CAPTURE STUNNING NIGHTSCAPES
How you can image the majesty of the Milky Way
CREATE A STAR TRAIL
PICK THE BEST SPOT
NIGHTSCAPES AT A GLANCE
SHOOT CELESTIAL BODIES
THE BASICS OF NIGHT-SKY SHOOTS
BRING THE DEEP SKY TO YOU
WHAT’S IN THE SKY?
In this issue...
Jargon buster
PLANETARIUM
THIS MONTH’S PLANETS
WOLF
NAKED EYE AND BINOCULAR TARGETS
OBSERVE THE UNICORN’S SPARKLING TREASURES
THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
ASTROSHOTS OF THE MONTH
SKY-WATCHER EXPLORER 130 • A Newtonian reflector that’s versatile, affordable and optically impressive with an equatorial mount to view Solar System objects, double stars and deep-sky targets
IN THE SHOPS: DEEP-SPACE TELESCOPES
WERNHER VON BRAUN
ALL ABOUT SPACE
