Page 3 - All About Space 68 - 2017 UK

NASA's adventurous new
mission will get closer to the
Sun than ever before

© NASA

Welcome to issue 68! “ The solar probe is going to a

What if a Elsewhere in the issue, NASA has region of space that has never
universe existed unveiled more details of their new,
where time runs ambitious mission to ‘touch’ the Sun, been explored before”
backwards? we feature the alien life we should be
That’s what looking for (it’s nothing like the life J. Felipe Ruiz, page 26
astrophysicists at forms we see here on Earth) and find
the Californian Institute of Technology out more about the hunt for Planet
Contributors
(Caltech) have been investigating, Nine, which could have possibly
where some 14 billion years ago the turned up evidence for a Mars-sized
Big Bang could have given rise to a Planet Ten. Abigail Beall Russ Swan
Science and technology Science and technology
second cosmos where everything runs Wherever you are in the world, journalist editor & writer
in the opposite direction – a kind of we’ve made sure that you can enjoy Have we found more NASA will be launching
mirror universe. the Great American Eclipse this evidence for another its most ambitious
Of course, if we’re looking at this year – turn to page 80 to find what planet in our Solar spacecraft to date – a
System? Abigail has the mission to touch the Sun.
opposing universe, we would see you can see, whether you’re watching
details on Planet Nine and Russ spoke to the team to
the future running to the past and it the event from the States, observing a a possible Planet Ten. find out more.
would appear that time was moving partial or enjoying it at home via
backwards rather than forwards. But your computer. Lee Cavendish Jamie Carter
could we have found evidence for I'll see you again on 14 September! Staff writer & Astronomer & author
such a multiverse? Turn to page 16 astronomer If you’re heading over to
to find out if the cosmic microwave What if life forms existed America to observe the
background – that’s the relic radiation on worlds within our solar total solar eclipse – or
neighbourhood? Lee even if you’re not – Jamie
left over from the birth of the cosmos reveals why we should be provides the details on
– has been giving away some telltale Gemma Lavender looking for life, but not as how to get the best views
signs to cosmologists. Editor we know it. and what to expect.

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