March high­lights

Watch The Sky at Night

Sky at Night Magazine - - CONTENTS -

The team ex­plore the as­tound­ing rev­e­la­tion that most of the Uni­verse is in­vis­i­ble. Mag­gie finds out about the un­known sub­stance called ‘dark mat­ter’, and Chris goes un­der­ground to visit a fa­cil­ity that is search­ing for it. Jim Al-Khalili re­veals how col­lid­ing stars help as­tronomers in­ves­ti­gate the force that seems to be ac­cel­er­at­ing the ex­pan­sion of the Uni­verse.

Dr George Ricker: the launch of TESS

The mis­sion’s prin­ci­pal in­ves­ti­ga­tor re­veals how the satel­lite will hunt for worlds be­yond the So­lar Sys­tem.

Build a ro­tat­ing meteor shut­ter

Ac­cess ex­tra PDF guides, im­ages and di­a­grams to help with this month’s DIY

How To guide (page 82).

Get sneak pre­views of books we’ve re­viewed

Down­load an au­dio and PDF ex­cerpt from two of the books re­viewed in this month’s is­sue (page 102).

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