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

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