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All About Space

No. 114
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

LAUNCH PAD • YOUR FIRST CONTACT WITH THE UNIVERSE

Twisted space light could reveal brand-new physics

Broadcaster’s satellite fails in orbit

OSIRIS-REx to leave asteroid in May to deliver samples

Extreme black holes probably have ‘hair’

Students help discover four new planets

Martian mineral found in Antarctic ice

SPACE WARS • SEVERAL COUNTRIES ARE SPENDING A LOT MORE ON MILITARY SPACE, WORRYING PEACEMAKERS

THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION: USING SPACE FOR HUMANKIND

WHAT IS THE SPACE FORCE?

THE ROAD TO SPACE WARFARE • No battles have been fought in space so far, and many bodies want to prevent it

WHAT WEAPONS WILL BE USED?

SPACE WARFARE IN THE NEWS

WEIRD GAS GIANT HOLDS SOLAR SYSTEM’S SECRETS • A gigantic alien world’s long orbit may tell us more about the outer planets in our solar neighbourhood

STARSHIP MISSION CONSTRUCTION KIT • SpaceX is building Starship specifically to reach Mars, but it could transform space travel as the first mass-produced spacecraft

“WE MIGHT HAVE TO RETHINK WHAT SCIENCE IS” • In his book Galileo’s Error, philosopher Philip Goff argues consciousness is everywhere. All About Space meets with the author to find out more

SIGNAL FROM PROXIMA CENTAURI • Could a recently detected signal from a nearby star system be from extraterrestrials?

COULD IT BE ALIENS? • There are many challenges to defining whether a signal from outer space is an indication of alien contact or something less exotic

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO REACH PROXIMA CENTAURI?

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE SIGNAL

WHERE IS PROXIMA CENTAURI?

HOW WAS THE SIGNAL DETECTED? • A survey of stellar flare activity by the Australian Parkes radio telescope revealed the ‘alien’ signal

DEATH FROM ABOVE CAN METEORITES KILL? • what are the chances of being struck. by a falling piece of space rock?

NAME THAT SPACE ROCK • What’s the difference between an asteroid and a meteor?

HOW A METEOR FALLS • Incredible things happen to an object travelling at up to kilometres (44.7 miles) per second through Earth’s atmosphere

METEORITE TYPES

ODDS OF BEING KILLED BY...

The Milky Way • Our galactic home is constantly surprising us, and it hasn’t finished yet

WHAT’S NEXT FOR ARECIBO? • PUERTO RICO’S HUGE TELESCOPE LIES IN RUINS, BUT IS THIS REALLY THE END?

WHAT HAPPENED TO ARECIBO?

WHERE CAN ARECIBO’S SCIENCE BE MOVED TO?

MEET FAST: ARECIBO’S REPLACEMENT • CHINA’S GIANT RADIO TELESCOPE COULD CARRY ON ARECIBO’S PIONEERING WORK

ARECIBO’S BEST BITS

NEW LAW PROTECTS APOLLO SITES FROM MOON MISSIONS • Future launches to the lunar surface will be required to leave these iconic locations untouched

ARE THERE OTHER KINDS OF DARK ENERGY? • The universe’s expansion is accelerating under the influence of a mysterious force, which could emerge from multiple sources

THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF DARK ENERGY

WHERE DID DARK ENERGY COME FROM?

WHAT IS STRING THEORY?

HOW DARK ENERGY BEHAVES

SUPER-EARTH SEEN ORBITING ONE OF OUR GALAXY’S OLDEST STARS • The new discovery has highlighted that the universe has been birthing rocky worlds for a long time

WHAT IS STEVE? • Photographers who began taking images of unusual lights in the night sky suddenly found themselves to be citizen scientists

STEVE BY NUMBERS

HOW STEVE’S LIGHT IS LIKELY TO BE GENERATED • Charged particles collide and heat up,...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 100 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: No. 114

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: February 25, 2021

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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

LAUNCH PAD • YOUR FIRST CONTACT WITH THE UNIVERSE

Twisted space light could reveal brand-new physics

Broadcaster’s satellite fails in orbit

OSIRIS-REx to leave asteroid in May to deliver samples

Extreme black holes probably have ‘hair’

Students help discover four new planets

Martian mineral found in Antarctic ice

SPACE WARS • SEVERAL COUNTRIES ARE SPENDING A LOT MORE ON MILITARY SPACE, WORRYING PEACEMAKERS

THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION: USING SPACE FOR HUMANKIND

WHAT IS THE SPACE FORCE?

THE ROAD TO SPACE WARFARE • No battles have been fought in space so far, and many bodies want to prevent it

WHAT WEAPONS WILL BE USED?

SPACE WARFARE IN THE NEWS

WEIRD GAS GIANT HOLDS SOLAR SYSTEM’S SECRETS • A gigantic alien world’s long orbit may tell us more about the outer planets in our solar neighbourhood

STARSHIP MISSION CONSTRUCTION KIT • SpaceX is building Starship specifically to reach Mars, but it could transform space travel as the first mass-produced spacecraft

“WE MIGHT HAVE TO RETHINK WHAT SCIENCE IS” • In his book Galileo’s Error, philosopher Philip Goff argues consciousness is everywhere. All About Space meets with the author to find out more

SIGNAL FROM PROXIMA CENTAURI • Could a recently detected signal from a nearby star system be from extraterrestrials?

COULD IT BE ALIENS? • There are many challenges to defining whether a signal from outer space is an indication of alien contact or something less exotic

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO REACH PROXIMA CENTAURI?

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE SIGNAL

WHERE IS PROXIMA CENTAURI?

HOW WAS THE SIGNAL DETECTED? • A survey of stellar flare activity by the Australian Parkes radio telescope revealed the ‘alien’ signal

DEATH FROM ABOVE CAN METEORITES KILL? • what are the chances of being struck. by a falling piece of space rock?

NAME THAT SPACE ROCK • What’s the difference between an asteroid and a meteor?

HOW A METEOR FALLS • Incredible things happen to an object travelling at up to kilometres (44.7 miles) per second through Earth’s atmosphere

METEORITE TYPES

ODDS OF BEING KILLED BY...

The Milky Way • Our galactic home is constantly surprising us, and it hasn’t finished yet

WHAT’S NEXT FOR ARECIBO? • PUERTO RICO’S HUGE TELESCOPE LIES IN RUINS, BUT IS THIS REALLY THE END?

WHAT HAPPENED TO ARECIBO?

WHERE CAN ARECIBO’S SCIENCE BE MOVED TO?

MEET FAST: ARECIBO’S REPLACEMENT • CHINA’S GIANT RADIO TELESCOPE COULD CARRY ON ARECIBO’S PIONEERING WORK

ARECIBO’S BEST BITS

NEW LAW PROTECTS APOLLO SITES FROM MOON MISSIONS • Future launches to the lunar surface will be required to leave these iconic locations untouched

ARE THERE OTHER KINDS OF DARK ENERGY? • The universe’s expansion is accelerating under the influence of a mysterious force, which could emerge from multiple sources

THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF DARK ENERGY

WHERE DID DARK ENERGY COME FROM?

WHAT IS STRING THEORY?

HOW DARK ENERGY BEHAVES

SUPER-EARTH SEEN ORBITING ONE OF OUR GALAXY’S OLDEST STARS • The new discovery has highlighted that the universe has been birthing rocky worlds for a long time

WHAT IS STEVE? • Photographers who began taking images of unusual lights in the night sky suddenly found themselves to be citizen scientists

STEVE BY NUMBERS

HOW STEVE’S LIGHT IS LIKELY TO BE GENERATED • Charged particles collide and heat up,...


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