Free Astronomy Magazine May-June 2018

THE FREE MULTIMEDIA MAGAZINE THAT KEEPS YOU UPDATED ON WHAT IS HAPPENING IN SPACE Bi-monthly magazine of scientific and technical information ✶ May-June 2018 issue www.astropublishing.com ✶ www.astropublishing.org ✶ info@astropublishing.com Skylights, back to the caves An extra luxury hotel in Earth orbit • WASP-39b: a lot of water in its atmosphere • MATISSE sees first light on ESO’s VLT interferometer • Hubble discovers the most distant star ever observed • Powerful flare from Proxima Centauri detected with ALMA • First galaxy in the local Universe without dark matter • MUSE data points to isolated neutron star beyond our galaxy The Silurian Hypothesis − Something to think about