WELCOME Issue 121
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The hunt for life elsewhere in the universe still rages on, as you’ll discover in our cover feature this month. Turn to page 14 for full details on the missions, techniques and plans in our search for life beyond planet Earth. Are we any closer to finding it? Elsewhere in the issue, your regulars are all here, including mysteries of the universe – where we go back to 1054 and reveal what caused the explosion that formed the Crab Nebula – your burning questions answered in Ask Space and this month’s guide to the night sky, where we tour Clavius crater on the surface of the Moon. There’s also naked-eye and binocular tours of some of the brightest stars in the constellations of Auriga, Taurus and their borders.