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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
NEW AUGMENTED REALITY
LAUNCH PAD • YOUR FIRST CONTACT WITH THE UNIVERSE
A supermassive black hole is speeding through space, and astronomers don’t know why
Mars is leaking water into space during dust storms and warmer seasons
Astronomers find most distant quasar shooting powerful radio jets
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may survive by gobbling up smaller storms
Russia and China just agreed to build a research station on the Moon together
Russian scientists deploy giant telescope beneath Lake Baikal
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ROSWELL FILES • DID A FLYING SAUCER REALLY CRASH LAND IN AMERICA IN 1947, ONLY TO BE HUSHED UP BY THE GOVERNMENT?
WHAT HAPPENED? • Who knows what actually crashed in 1947? All we know is that something ended up on the ground near Roswell
KEY PEOPLE
IS THE TRUTH REALLY OUT THERE? • Former CIA operative Ben Smith investigated the crash which took place in Roswell in 1947 for a television documentary aired on the History Channel, or Sky History in the UK, called Roswell: The First Witness. He spoke to the grandchildren of Major Jesse Marcel, the person sent to the crash site to gather debris for analysis. He also visited the site with aviation crash experts, studied a journal found among Marcel’s possessions for clues and spoke to other witnesses. Was Marcel right? Was the evidence gathered that day really not of this Earth?
WHAT WAS THE OBJECT?
INSTANT LANDING PAD • Touching down on a new planet can be unsettling, but Masten Space Systems aims to put things on a firmer footing
SIGNALS FROM SATURN • An unusual signal from the ringed planet’s moon Rhea now has a possible explanation
RHEA BY NUMBERS
SATURN’S FAMILY PORTRAIT • The sixth planet from the Sun has a distinctive ring system and at least 82 moons
CASSINI SPACECRAFT
SEEKING THE ORIGINS OF LIFE • A planetary scientist with a very steady hand, Queenie Chan speaks to All About Space about her work on tiny specks of asteroid samples collected by the Hayabusa mission
PERSEVERANCE ON MARS • NASA’S LATEST MARTIAN ROVER HAS BEGUN ITS EPIC QUEST TO FIND EVIDENCE FOR PAST LIFE RESIDING IN JEZERO CRATER
CAN WE DETECT WORMHOLES? • They’re a staple of science fiction, but could they be real? New research suggests wormholes could be somewhere around us, and we could uncover them
SEEKING OUT WORMHOLES • It’s currently impossible to tell the difference between a wormhole and a black hole, but there are ways it could be done
How do wormholes work? • Punching through space-time to reach a different place or time isn’t quite as easy as it sounds
WORMHOLE CANDIDATES
RARE SUPERNOVA RELIC FOUND IN OUR GALAXY • NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered the remains of something quite unusual within the Milky Way’s heart
CHINA’S MODULAR SPACE STATION • A SYMBOL OF CHINA’S TECHNOLOGICAL PROWESS AND THE VALUE OF GLOBAL SCIENTIFIC CORROBORATION
ACCEPTED EXPERIMENTS
CONDITIONALLY ACCEPTED EXPERIMENTS
COMPARISON OF SPACE STATIONS
ON BOARD THE MODULAR STATION
SCORCHING-HOT PLANET CANDIDATE SPOTTED AROUND FAMOUS STAR • After scanning ten years of data, a possible world may be orbiting the dazzling main sequence star Vega in the constellation of Lyra
WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE • OUR SOLAR SYSTEM, THE MILKY WAY AND THE UNIVERSE BEYOND ARE FILLED WITH WONDROUS SIGHTS AND INCREDIBLE OBJECTS. TAKE A JOURNEY THROUGH THEM WITH ALL ABOUT SPACE
Eta Carinae • This star has refused to...
