All About Space - UK (2020-02)

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App SkySafari 6 Pro

Cost: £26.99 / $39.99 From: iTunes

We have never been more impressed with an astronomy app than we

are with SkySafari 6 Pro, which features 25 million stars from Hubble

Guide Star Catalogs, over 740,000 galaxies all the way down to 18th

magnitude as well as 630,000 Solar System objects. This upgraded

version also features new Apollo 11 mission data.

With impressive detail and simulation quality, SkySafari 6 Pro

simulates the view from anywhere in the Solar System – including

from locations on Earth – and beyond as well as into the universe’s

past or future. Even more impressive is that you get a real-time review

of the rotation of the planets as well as a Telescope Equipment setting

thatenablesyoutoenter a list of your telescope equipment and get an

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may put some off, but it’s compatible with iPad, iPod

ne.Being so useful to all levels of astronomer, we felt

hevery penny. There is also the option of purchasing

dSkySafari 6 and SkySafari 6 Plus depending on your

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Book Dr Space Junk vs The Universe

Cost: £22.50 / $27.95 From: The MIT Press
A pioneering space archaeologist explores artefacts left behin
and on Earth, from Moon dust to Elon Musk’s red sports car.
In this book, space archaeologist Alice Gorman examinesth
artefacts of human encounters with space. These objects,left
on Earth and in space, can be massive or tiny. They can bebo
hopeful. They raise interesting questions: why did Elon Muskf
compelled to send a red Tesla into space? What accounts forth
multiple rocket-themed playgrounds constructed after theRus
launched Sputnik? Gorman – affectionately known as ‘Dr Spac
Junk’ – takes readers on a journey through the Solar Systema
beyond, deploying space artefacts, historical explorations ande
occasional cocktail recipe that make space meaningful.
Engaging and erudite, Gorman recounts her backgroundas
space archaeologist and how she became interested in spacea
Sheshows us her own piece of space junk: a fragment of thef
nsulation from Skylab, the NASA spacecraft that crash-landed
Western Australia in 1979. She reveals that the conventionalvi
theSpace Race as ‘the triumph of the white, male Americanas
seems inadequate; what really interests her, she says, is howe
people engage with space. To an archaeologist, objects fromth
are significant because they remind us of what we might want
onto in the future.

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