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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
Webb’s first birthday photo
A bright galaxy with a violent past
A red giant in its jug-shaped death throes
Artificial intelligence is helping scientists reveal star ages
China keeps its eye on NASA’s budget uncertainty
Asteroid collisions may be responsible for mysteriously magnetic meteorites on Earth
Weird cosmic object identified as the remains of a dead star
STRANGE NEW WORLDS • We’re discovering and uncovering details about new exoplanets all the time, with some really weird worlds existing beyond the Solar System
SPACE FACTORIES • The prime challenge of living in space – besides the inherent danger – is figuring out how to bring enough with you to survive. Equipment, oxygen, food and water all need to be hauled there, but could there be an alternative solution?
“Going outside the spacecraft is very special” • The retired NASA astronaut tells All About Space how a jammed camera during a spacewalk changed his life
A ‘METEORITE’ THAT STRUCK A FRENCH WOMAN WAS JUST A REGULAR EARTH ROCK
SCI-FI NIGHT SKY • Look out into the universe and you’ll recognise some of its members have played a part in the works of science fiction
‘HIDDEN’ PHOTONS COULD SHED LIGHT ON MYSTERIOUS DARK MATTER • A new experimental technique places constraints on a potential candidate for dark matter called ‘dark photons’
SUBARU TELESCOPE
PLANET FORMATION: IS IT TURBULENT OR TRANQUIL?
THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE SPIES WATER NEAR THE CENTRE OF A PLANET-FORMING DISC
NEXT GIANT LEAP • We’ve gone from biplanes to Falcon 9 in a century. What will the next 100 years bring?
OUR INFANT SOLAR SYSTEM MAY HAVE SURVIVED A NEARBY SUPERNOVA • Radioactive isotopes in meteorites suggest a stellar explosion erupted near the planets as they were forming
THE TWO-FACED STAR • With one side helium and the other hydrogen, the white dwarf Janus is baffling astronomers
STARS WITH POWERFUL MAGNETIC FIELDS COULD NARROW THE SEARCH FOR ALIEN LIFE • Small stars with unexpectedly strong magnetic forces could be blasting their planets with radiation
Why are most rockets white?
How do gravitational waves work?
AN ANCIENT STAR THAT CRASHED A HOT, YOUNG STAR PARTY COULD SOLVE A SOLAR SYSTEM MYSTERY • Astronomers saw the old cosmic interloper in a region of star formation over 2,000 light years away
DAYTIME ASTRONOMY • Forget staying up late, All About Space shows you how to get stuck into observing without waiting until the small hours
WHAT’S IN THE SKY?
PLANETARIUM
THIS MONTH’S PLANETS
THEOPHILUS
NAKED EYE AND BINOCULAR TARGETS
TREASURES OF THE AUTUMN MILKY WAY • Among the richest for deep-sky observers, September brings star clusters, nebulae and galaxies galore
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
VAONIS VESPERA OBSERVATION STATION • Smart and fully automated, the Vaonis Vespera Observation Station is a telescope and camera rolled into one
IN THE SHOPS: RED-LIGHT HEADLAMPS • Here’s our round-up of the best headlamps to keep your hands free and give you visibility in the dark
CARL SAGAN • From giant stars to the smallest mote of dust, Sagan helped popularise space like never before
ALL ABOUT SPACE
