[...]... data from the exoplanet-spotting Kepler spacecraft has revealed the nature of a strange dwarf star 53 light years from Earth It’s an L-type star designated W1906+40 that’s smaller Facebook /AllAboutSpaceMagazine than Jupiter, cooler than the Sun and probably around 4 to 5 billion years old What makes it so unusual is its temperature: in regular intervals of about a week, the star flares up from its... page 95 of issue 13, which should have read ‘Ostara Astro SWA70 26mm (2")’ We strive for accuracy on All About Space but deadline pressure means mistakes can slip through 3D printing in space The ESA has sent a printed toolbox to the ISS The toolbox required stringent tests before being released for use in space, but the advantage of 3D printing items is that if any part breaks, it can immediately be replicated... truly accessible to all and sets a new standard for knowledge/science magazines on iPad and iPhone.” Brain Dump is the latest addition to Imagine’s expanding portfolio and a free sample issue will come preinstalled on the app www.spaceanswers.com © NASA; ESO; SNOLAB; Fermilab Mystery of planet formation solved A stellar eruption from the nearby double star system T Pyxidis has allowed scientists to... PARTIALLY SOLVED In 2011, astronomers discovered a ‘naked quasar’ – a supermassive black hole with no ‘host galaxy’ Jets of material from the quasar seem to be generating stars in a neighbouring galaxy The two objects will eventually collide and produce an ‘active galaxy’, but is this rare or the way in which all galaxies form? 12 Why light bends All the matter we can see and detect makes up just a small... As space expanded and cooled rapidly most of its energy was converted into matter, but this was so tightly packed that the universe remained opaque and ‘foggy’ for 400,000 years Stage 1 The Big Bang began with the creation of a singularity – an infinitely small, hot and dense point that contained space, time and all the energy of the universe within it 16 What caused the Tunguska explosion? PARTIALLY... it explodes. www.spaceanswers.com SPACE RACE A05172 VOSTOK 1 e! ut mor nd o fi to ne ho rtp a sm Scan this QR cod ew ith yo ur One of the most successful space designs ever, the initial flight of the Vostok which carried the first human being into space was launched on April 12 1961 Vostok 1 carrying cosmonaut Yuri A Gagarin made a single orbit of Earth before re-entry FULL RANGE OF SPACE SUBJECTS NOW... 2017 Written by Ben Biggs S3 (otherwise known as Swiss Space Systems) is based in the western part of Switzerland and was founded in 2012 by military pilot and mechanical engineer Pascal Jaussi Its motto is Space for all and one of its ambitious goals is to open a space port by the year 2015 then start test-launching by 2017 S3 is aiming to put small satellites of up to 250 kilograms (551 pounds) into... Swiss Francs ($211 million/£140 million) with another 50 million Swiss Francs ($53 million/£35 million) paying for the construction of the space port "A big asset of the project is our network of international partners, who all support S3", Pascal Jaussi told All About Space, "This enables us to save time and money on research and development." Each launch has an estimated cost of 10 million Swiss Francs... “They will potentially be two or three times the size of Earth and maybe ten Earth masses, so they’re potentially rocky planets And we’re doing this all from the [surface of the Earth], you don’t need to spend $600m [on a space telescope] to do it.” One SuperWASP observatory is in the Canary Islands and the other is in South Africa The SuperWASP observatories operate on a substantially lower budget... mystery According to Einstein’s theories of relativity, space- time is a fourdimensional manifold In extreme situations of relative motion or high gravity, the dimensions can become ‘twisted’ relative to our frame of reference, creating strange distortions of space and time www.spaceanswers.com 11 How black holes are linked to galaxies 13 What is space roar? UNSOLVED In 2008, a NASA team’s attempt to . 74 Visit the All About Space online shop at For back issues, books, merchandise and more www.spaceanswers.com 62 50 All About Proxima Centauri Galaxy classification 30 www.spaceanswers .com 6 launch. installation of the COUPP-60 detector, overseen by Hugh Lippincott and fellow scientists www.spaceanswers .com 13 Stay up to date… Twitter @spaceanswers Facebook /AllAboutSpaceMagazine www.spaceanswers.com Fascinating. UNIVERSE @spaceanswers TWEET US /AllAboutSpaceMagazine POST ON FACEBOOK questions@spaceanswers.com SEND US AN EMAIL @ 4 Jupiter’s rings 16 20 secrets of the universe The 20 biggest mysteries of space, solved