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All About Space

No. 145
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

A million cosmic baby pictures form a vast star atlas

Webb teams up with Chandra

The Orion Nebula’s stellar sprinkler

New Tatooine -like exoplanet discovered orbiting twin suns

Earth is getting hotter at a faster rate despite pledges of government action

Scientists beam solar power to Earth from space for the first time

A new Pentagon-funded hypersonic test vehicle could fly in summer 2024

MEADE POLARIS 130MD WORTH £250! • Kick-start your stargazing hobby with this month’s competition prize

BEYOND PLUTO • From Planet X to objects frozen in time – what truly lurks outside the Solar System’s chaotic frontier

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE FINDS A GARGANTUAN GEYSER ON SATURN’S MOON • Scientists are longing to go back to the moon to sample the plume material for signs of life

MANNED MISSION TO AN ASTEROID • NASA plans to send manned expeditions to near-Earth asteroids in order to discover more about their formation and structure

“We knew that this would be a historic comet” • Astronomer David Levy was immortalised for his co-discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 – its impact with Jupiter 29 years ago held the world in awe

CHINA PLANS TO PUT ASTRONAUTS ON THE MOON BEFORE 2030

CAN SPACE EXPLORATION REALLY BE ETHICAL? • More than 60 years after Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel beyond Earth’s atmosphere, human exploration and exploitation of space isn’t just a matter of technological innovation… it continues to raise many ethical issues

TIME DILATION • What happens to time when travelling at extreme speeds? We ask a scientist to break it down in terms of twins

THE FORGOTTEN FORCE

A BLACK HOLE SHOT OUT A BRIGHT X-RAY JET 60,000 TIMES HOTTER THAN THE SUN

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE BREAKTHROUGHS

A STRANGE STAR SYSTEM MAY HOLD THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF AN ULTRA- RARE ‘DARK MATTER STAR’

WHAT’S THE STRANGEST THING SENT INTO SPACE?

ICE CLOUDS HIGH IN EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE COULD HELP PREDICT CLIMATE CHANGE • A new mission will help us understand how these features respond to climate change and how they might influence our climate in the future

WHAT CAUSED THE LARGEST COSMIC EXPLOSION EVER SEEN? • Astronomers discovered a blast ten times brighter than any recorded before

NASA’S KEPLER SPACE TELESCOPE DISCOVERED TWO MINI-NEPTUNE EXOPLANETS JUST BEFORE DYING

What causes more anxiety for an astronaut: liftoff or returning to Earth?

WHAT’S IN THE SKY?

PLANETARIUM

THIS MONTH’S PLANETS

SHACKLETON CRATER

NAKED EYE AND BINOCULAR TARGETS

STELLAR TREASURES OF THE ARCHER AND SCORPION

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

POCOCO GALAXY PROJECTOR • This rechargeable star projector emits bright, colourful and sharp imagery that gives the best star projectors we’ve tested a run for their money

IN THE SHOPS: BINOCULARS FOR YOUNG STARGAZERS

EUGENE KRANZ

SPACE


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Frequency: One time Pages: 100 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: No. 145

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: July 13, 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

A million cosmic baby pictures form a vast star atlas

Webb teams up with Chandra

The Orion Nebula’s stellar sprinkler

New Tatooine -like exoplanet discovered orbiting twin suns

Earth is getting hotter at a faster rate despite pledges of government action

Scientists beam solar power to Earth from space for the first time

A new Pentagon-funded hypersonic test vehicle could fly in summer 2024

MEADE POLARIS 130MD WORTH £250! • Kick-start your stargazing hobby with this month’s competition prize

BEYOND PLUTO • From Planet X to objects frozen in time – what truly lurks outside the Solar System’s chaotic frontier

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE FINDS A GARGANTUAN GEYSER ON SATURN’S MOON • Scientists are longing to go back to the moon to sample the plume material for signs of life

MANNED MISSION TO AN ASTEROID • NASA plans to send manned expeditions to near-Earth asteroids in order to discover more about their formation and structure

“We knew that this would be a historic comet” • Astronomer David Levy was immortalised for his co-discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 – its impact with Jupiter 29 years ago held the world in awe

CHINA PLANS TO PUT ASTRONAUTS ON THE MOON BEFORE 2030

CAN SPACE EXPLORATION REALLY BE ETHICAL? • More than 60 years after Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel beyond Earth’s atmosphere, human exploration and exploitation of space isn’t just a matter of technological innovation… it continues to raise many ethical issues

TIME DILATION • What happens to time when travelling at extreme speeds? We ask a scientist to break it down in terms of twins

THE FORGOTTEN FORCE

A BLACK HOLE SHOT OUT A BRIGHT X-RAY JET 60,000 TIMES HOTTER THAN THE SUN

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE BREAKTHROUGHS

A STRANGE STAR SYSTEM MAY HOLD THE FIRST EVIDENCE OF AN ULTRA- RARE ‘DARK MATTER STAR’

WHAT’S THE STRANGEST THING SENT INTO SPACE?

ICE CLOUDS HIGH IN EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE COULD HELP PREDICT CLIMATE CHANGE • A new mission will help us understand how these features respond to climate change and how they might influence our climate in the future

WHAT CAUSED THE LARGEST COSMIC EXPLOSION EVER SEEN? • Astronomers discovered a blast ten times brighter than any recorded before

NASA’S KEPLER SPACE TELESCOPE DISCOVERED TWO MINI-NEPTUNE EXOPLANETS JUST BEFORE DYING

What causes more anxiety for an astronaut: liftoff or returning to Earth?

WHAT’S IN THE SKY?

PLANETARIUM

THIS MONTH’S PLANETS

SHACKLETON CRATER

NAKED EYE AND BINOCULAR TARGETS

STELLAR TREASURES OF THE ARCHER AND SCORPION

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

POCOCO GALAXY PROJECTOR • This rechargeable star projector emits bright, colourful and sharp imagery that gives the best star projectors we’ve tested a run for their money

IN THE SHOPS: BINOCULARS FOR YOUNG STARGAZERS

EUGENE KRANZ

SPACE


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