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All About Space

No. 146
Magazine

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

The wreckage of a cosmic clash of the titans

A dark nebula dominates this gorgeous new view of Orion

Webb’s view of Saturn

Metal clouds turn a scorching -hot exoplanet into the universe’s largest mirror

Perseverance rover digs up a diverse set of organic molecules on the Red Planet

NASA doubles its spacesuit options for Artemis astronauts, the Moon and ISS crews

Buried oceans may be common on icy exoplanets

THE MILKY WAY • The Milky Way is our home galaxy – avast star factory with a monstrous black hole at its heart. Join our tour of the cosmic pinwheel that’s home to every star we can see in the night sky

BAND AROUND THE SKY

THE MILKY WAY BY NUMBERS

UNFOLDING STRUCTURE

STELLAR TRAFFIC JAMS

GALACTIC HISTORY

DARK MATTER MYSTERY

THE GALACTIC NEIGHBOURHOOD

STELLAR POPULATIONS

SURPRISE AT THE CENTRE

LIFE IN OUR GALAXY

GALACTIC CANNIBAL

ORBITAL RINGS

“It would be cool if we were some simulation”

OBJECT HOTTER THAN THE SUN FOUND ORBITING A DISTANT STAR AT BREAKNECK SPEED

WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CHANGE ASTRONOMY? • With computers growing smarter than ever, training them how to spot and categorise astronomical objects could lead to a plethora of breakthroughs

HOW TO FIND AN ALIEN MOON

HUBBLE’S TUNING-FORK CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

COSMIC ‘SANDWICH’ THEORY COULD EXPLAIN HOW SMALLER PLANETS ARE FORMED

NEPTUNE • The isolated azure ice giant remains a relative mystery

NEWS FROM NEPTUNE

WHAT CAN WE DO WITH A CAPTURED ASTEROID?

TIME APPEARED TO MOVE FIVE TIMES SLOWER IN THE FIRST • Time dilation, brought about by the relativistic expansion of space, has resulted in the observed slowing of ‘clocks’ in the early universe

CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

SIX OF THE BEST

MARS HELICOPTER PHONES HOME AFTER A 63-DAY SILENCE

WHY DOES JUPITER CHANGE COLOUR? • For years, scientists have tried to work out why Jupiter’s bands frequently move and change colour. Now they believe they’ve found the answer

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

A HUNGRY BLACK HOLE ‘SWITCHES ON’ AS ASTRONOMERS WATCH IN SURPRISE

Will the Moon ever leave us?

METEOR SHOWER VIEWING • Speeding through the atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour, meteor showers offer an exciting view for stargazers

WHAT’S IN THE SKY?

PLANETARIUM

THIS MONTH’S PLANETS

COPERNICUS

NAKED EYE AND BINOCULAR TARGETS • See a cloud of stars and shells of gas produced by faraway dying suns in the summer sky

DIVING DEEP INTO THE SUMMER SKY • The ghostly remains of dead stars, glittering ancient star clusters and a spectacular galaxy far, far away await

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

CELESTRON STARSENSE EXPLORER DX 102AZ • Innovative technology provides the simplest and quickest solution yet to finding objects to observe, and this instrument will be very popular with beginners

IN THE SHOPS: STAR PROJECTORS

ALL ABOUT SPACE

TYCHO BRAHE


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Frequency: One time Pages: 100 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: No. 146

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: August 10, 2023

Formats

OverDrive Magazine

subjects

Science

Languages

English

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

The wreckage of a cosmic clash of the titans

A dark nebula dominates this gorgeous new view of Orion

Webb’s view of Saturn

Metal clouds turn a scorching -hot exoplanet into the universe’s largest mirror

Perseverance rover digs up a diverse set of organic molecules on the Red Planet

NASA doubles its spacesuit options for Artemis astronauts, the Moon and ISS crews

Buried oceans may be common on icy exoplanets

THE MILKY WAY • The Milky Way is our home galaxy – avast star factory with a monstrous black hole at its heart. Join our tour of the cosmic pinwheel that’s home to every star we can see in the night sky

BAND AROUND THE SKY

THE MILKY WAY BY NUMBERS

UNFOLDING STRUCTURE

STELLAR TRAFFIC JAMS

GALACTIC HISTORY

DARK MATTER MYSTERY

THE GALACTIC NEIGHBOURHOOD

STELLAR POPULATIONS

SURPRISE AT THE CENTRE

LIFE IN OUR GALAXY

GALACTIC CANNIBAL

ORBITAL RINGS

“It would be cool if we were some simulation”

OBJECT HOTTER THAN THE SUN FOUND ORBITING A DISTANT STAR AT BREAKNECK SPEED

WILL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CHANGE ASTRONOMY? • With computers growing smarter than ever, training them how to spot and categorise astronomical objects could lead to a plethora of breakthroughs

HOW TO FIND AN ALIEN MOON

HUBBLE’S TUNING-FORK CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM

COSMIC ‘SANDWICH’ THEORY COULD EXPLAIN HOW SMALLER PLANETS ARE FORMED

NEPTUNE • The isolated azure ice giant remains a relative mystery

NEWS FROM NEPTUNE

WHAT CAN WE DO WITH A CAPTURED ASTEROID?

TIME APPEARED TO MOVE FIVE TIMES SLOWER IN THE FIRST • Time dilation, brought about by the relativistic expansion of space, has resulted in the observed slowing of ‘clocks’ in the early universe

CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

SIX OF THE BEST

MARS HELICOPTER PHONES HOME AFTER A 63-DAY SILENCE

WHY DOES JUPITER CHANGE COLOUR? • For years, scientists have tried to work out why Jupiter’s bands frequently move and change colour. Now they believe they’ve found the answer

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

A HUNGRY BLACK HOLE ‘SWITCHES ON’ AS ASTRONOMERS WATCH IN SURPRISE

Will the Moon ever leave us?

METEOR SHOWER VIEWING • Speeding through the atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour, meteor showers offer an exciting view for stargazers

WHAT’S IN THE SKY?

PLANETARIUM

THIS MONTH’S PLANETS

COPERNICUS

NAKED EYE AND BINOCULAR TARGETS • See a cloud of stars and shells of gas produced by faraway dying suns in the summer sky

DIVING DEEP INTO THE SUMMER SKY • The ghostly remains of dead stars, glittering ancient star clusters and a spectacular galaxy far, far away await

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

CELESTRON STARSENSE EXPLORER DX 102AZ • Innovative technology provides the simplest and quickest solution yet to finding objects to observe, and this instrument will be very popular with beginners

IN THE SHOPS: STAR PROJECTORS

ALL ABOUT SPACE

TYCHO BRAHE


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