All About Space UK Magazine - Issue 134

In this issue

Simon Morden
Planetary scientist Dr Simon Morden talks about his obsession with Mars and his latest sciencefact book on the Red Planet.

Space volcanoes
From Venus to Mars and the moons around far-flung planets, volcanoes have helped shape the bodies of our Solar System.

Supernova wreckage blasts out cosmic rays
Astronomers tracked cosmic rays to objects that launch particles with energy ten times greater than the Large Hadron Collider..

Colliding black holes could clock the universe’s expansion rate

Scientists may have found a way of using the collisions of black holes to measure the rate at which the universe is expanding. The violent mergers of black holes launch ripples in space-time called gravitational waves, and a new technique measures changes in these signals that occur as they experience the universe’s expansion.

2 mins

20 UNIVERSE MYTHS ABUSTED

Think you know all about space? Here are 20 myths about the universe that need debunking

10+ mins

Simon Morden - “If life is simply a question of the right environment, then yes, Mars had life”

Planetary scientist and award-winning sciencefiction writer Dr Simon Morden talks to All About Space about his obsession with Mars and his latest science-fact book on the Red Planet

5 mins

HOW TO BUILD A GALAXY

The making of these billion-star structures has been puzzling astronomers for decades. All About Space puts together the pieces for building a galaxy

9 mins

VENUS SULPHIDE MYSTERY MAY HAVE BEEN SOLVED

Computational methods can help us understand exotic chemical processes in planetary atmospheres

2 mins

10 SPACECRAFT THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

The past, present and future of the world’s greatest spacecraft, from the early pioneers to the modern marvels

8 mins

SUPERNOVA WRECKAGE BLASTS OUT COSMIC RAYS

Astronomers tracked cosmic rays to objects that launch particles with energy ten times greater than the Large Hadron Collider

3 mins

MOON PROFILE - EUROPA

One of the Solar System’s famous ocean worlds is an exciting prospect for further exploration

5 mins

SPACE VOLCANOES

From Venus to Mars and the moons around far-flung planets, volcanoes have helped shape the bodies of our Solar System

7 mins

MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE - WHY DO ASTRONAUTS EXPERIENCE MUSCLE LOSS?

Discover how sending worms into space is helping unlock ways for humans to spend longer beyond Earth

9 mins

CELESTRON POWERSEEKER 127EQ

This impressive telescope’s aperture and equatorial mount make it tempting to beginner astronomers

6 mins

JOHN M. GRUNSFELD

The valiant journeys of Hubble’s keeper

2 mins

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Discover the wonders of the Universe. 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.