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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
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
