All About Space - 2022-04-21

• Two floating robots meet
• Moon with a view
• Webb takes its first view of the cosmos
• 5,000 exoplanets: NASA confirms a big milestone for planetary science
• Europe’s Mars rover is now unlikely to launch before 2026 after Russia’s war on Ukraine
• Comet Leonard breaks into pieces as it rounds the Sun
• China plans to open its Tiangong space station for tourism within a decade
• 13 Saturn has a yin-yang moon
• 12 There is water everywhere
• 16 Rings are more common than we thought
• 15 Saturn has a hexagonal storm
• 14 Titan has a liquid cycle
• 17 Spacecraft have visited every planet
• 18 Worlds could be contaminat­ed by spacecraft
• 19 Most comets are spotted with a Sungrazing telescope
• 20 Uranus spins sideways
• 21 What happened to Miranda?
• 25 There may be a huge planet at the Solar System’s edge
• 22 Neptune is too hot
• 24 Pluto also has a bizarre atmosphere
• 23 There are mountains on Pluto
• Flapping wings
• Payload module
• Anatomy of the Hubble Space Telescope
• Servicing an observator­y
• Establish a space telescope
• Head to head
• Wide Field Camera 3: Hubble’s advanced eye
• Venus by numbers
• Visiting Venus
• Exploratio­n of Venus highlights
• Isaac Newton Telescope
• Thirty Meter Telescope
• Anatomy of a white dwarf
• When white dwarfs collide
• How stellar corpses are made
• Perseveran­ce’s instrument­al suite
• MAGNETIC FILAMENTS
• Taking a snapshot of the galactic centre
• Where did the magnetic filaments originate?
• Black hole collisions
• Do you think we should spend more on ‘safeguardi­ng’ Earth from asteroid impacts?
• Why haven’t we detected other civilisati­ons?
• What can we get from mining asteroids?
• What’s a photon sphere?
• If Polaris is the North Star, is there a ‘south star’?
• How does a cloud of gas and dust become a star?
• The stellar afterlife
• Get Andromeda in your sights
• Make the most of earthshine
• Observe Jupiter’s anticyclon­e
• Improve your meteor pictures
• Capture the milky way galaxy
• Observe deep-sky targets
• Shoot summer’s Noctilucen­t clouds
• Star-hop around the night sky
• Take planet images with your phone
• Get flawless star trail images
• Snap the stunning phases of Venus
• BEST ACCESSORIE­S FOR YOUR TELESCOPE
• Eyepiece and filter kit
• Jargon buster
• Using the sky chart
• Jaspal Chadha
• Jeff Johnson
• CANON EOS 6D MARK II
• Camera advice
• Lyman Spitzer

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