All About Space UK - Issue 140

In this issue

Deep-orbit observatory
We can use the Sun as a giant lens, but we’d need to send a telescope far into the Solar System.

NASA’s asteroid-hunting telescope
The infrared space telescope will search for potentially threatening near-Earth objects..

100 WONDERS of the UNIVERSE

OUR COSMOS IS FULL OF AMAZING SIGHTS, FROM EXOTIC EXOPLANETS TO STUNNING GALAXIES

10+ mins

FUTURE TECH: DEEP-ORBIT OBSERVATORY

We can use the Sun as a giant lens, but wed need to send a telescope far into the Solar System

3 mins

Alex Teachey "I expect it to be a habitable exomoon”

Sifting through data from NASAs Kepler, astronomers believe that we could have picked up the first signal of an alien moon. Co-discoverer and astronomer Alex Teachey reveals if we should be getting our hopes up

7 mins

FOCUS ON - WORK BEGINS ON NASA'S ASTEROID-HUNTING TELESCOPE

The infrared space telescope will search for potentially threatening near-Earth objects

2 mins

THE HISTORY OF SPACESUITS: THE 60-YEAR EVOLUTION OF SPACE SURVIVAL TECH

These miniature spacecraft have allowed us to operate in space for over half a century

9 mins

FOCUS ON - THE FIRST GALAXIES MAY HAVE FORMED MUCH EARLIER THAN WE THOUGHT

The finding has been revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope

2 mins

FOCUS ON - WEBB SCORES ITS FIRST ROCKY PLANET CONFIRMATION

Hopefully the first of many more detections to come

3 mins

TEN NASA INVENTIONS IN YOUR HOME

Bound by its motto – ‘for the benefit of all’ – since its formation NASA has had an obligation to foster and transfer its technological and scientific breakthroughs to the public and commercial spheres

8 mins

RUN A MESSIER MARATHON

This March there are galaxies, nebulae and star clusters galore – see how many you can spot in All About Space’s spring deep-sky challenge

7 mins

DEEP SKY CHALLENGE - THE LION'S GALAXIES

The evenings of early spring are full of deep-sky objects

2 mins

ASTROSHOTS OF THE MONTH

ASTROPHOTOS

1 min

LEGO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

Join the astronauts in orbit with this excellent model

4 mins

IN THE SHOPS: DEEP-SKY TELESCOPES

“It’s a superb-value proposition for those on a budget”

3 mins

HEROES OF SPACE - ALEXEI LEONOV

The first man to walk in space

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.