All About Space

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 ISSUE 151

Euclid ‘dark universe’ telescope captures its first full-colour views of the cosmos

Webb gazes into a galactic garden of budding stars

A major star factory near the Milky Way’s black hole

Supernova wreckage in a hazy galaxy

‘Alien’ spherules dredged from the Pacific are probably just industrial pollution

Chinese scientists build a model Mars atmosphere to aid sample -return plans

JUICE will use the gravity of Earth and the Moon to slingshot to Jupiter

Japan’s ispace unveils a micro rover for its second Moon mission

Distant ‘ teenage galaxies’ surprise astronomers with unexpected heavy elements

The first black hole ever imaged by humanity is losing huge amounts of energy through ‘lightsaber’ jets

WIN A CELESTRON NEXSTAR 4SE TELESCOPE WORTH OVER £450

ULTIMATE GUIDE TO COMETS

SCIENTISTS FIND HYDROGEN IN APOLLO MOON ROCK SAMPLES

A MANNED MISSION TO VENUS • Once believed to be off limits for human exploration, NASA is considering how Venus might be better to visit than Mars

“The blue of Earth is not only a colour, it’s also a light… it actually glows” • Astronaut Thomas Pesquet reveals the challenges of photographing Earth from space, the psychological importance of being able to see our planet out the window and how he selected the photos for his new book, The Earth in Our Hands: Photos from the International Space Station

STELLAR VAMPIRES MAY FEED ON HIDDEN STARS IN THEIR SYSTEMS

THE MILKY WAY’S STUNNING SPIRAL STRUCTURE APPEARS TO BE AN ANOMALY

SPACE MISSIONS OF 2024 • All About Space guides you through the space missions and events set to fire your imagination over the coming year

A HIGH-ENERGY PARTICLE OPENS UP POSSIBILITIES FOR NEW PHYSICS

HIDDEN UNIVERSE • Much of the cosmos goes undetected by our eyes. All About Space peers beyond visible light to reveal the explosive and catastrophic behaviour of the universe

ASTEROID PHAETHON’S MYSTERIOUS TAIL MAY FINALLY HAVE AN EXPLANATION

HOW DO SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES FORM? • Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole that existed 470 million years after the Big Bang, and it’s proving to be enlightening

A NASA INSTRUMENT ON THE ISS IDENTIFIES MORE THAN 750 GREENHOUSE GAS SOURCES

ASK SPACE

WHAT WOULD FALLING THROUGH URANUS’ ATMOSPHERE FEEL LIKE?

THE ASTRONOMER'S GUIDE TO STAR PARTIES

WHAT’S IN THE SKY?

PLANETARIUM

THIS MONTH’S PLANETS

SCHILLER

NAKED EYE AND BINOCULAR TARGETS

OBSERVE THE UNICORN’S SPARKLING TREASURES • The winter skies are rich in deep-sky objects for you and your telescope to hunt down and enjoy. Here are just a select few

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

CELESTRON UPCLOSE G2 10x50 BINOCULAR • Large objective lenses and 10x magnification help this affordable piece of kit appeal to anyone wanting to start stargazing

IN THE SHOPS: APOLLO MISSION GIFT GUIDE

BUZZ ALDRIN

All About Space