The Sky at Night
Synopsis
Your monthly journey through the fascinating world of space and astronomy with the latest thinking on what's out there in space and what you can see in the night sky.
2018 Episodes
EP 1
The team reports on unnerving discoveries in the field of space science. Researchers estimate that 95 per cent of everything in the univers…
EP 2
The team investigates an astronomical detective story. In October 2017, astronomers spotted the first ever object to visit our solar system…
EP 3
Chris Lintott and Maggie Aderin-Pocock reveal the latest results from NASA's Curiosity and ESA's ExoMars TGO missions that are attempting t…
EP 4
Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Chris Lintott examine the new information about the Milky Way recorded by the ESA's Gaia space telescope over the …
EP 5
Nasa's Juno spacecraft is currently making its 13th orbit of Jupiter on one of the most ambitious and risky space missions ever undertaken.…
EP 6
Chris Lintott travels to the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Australia to find out how astronomers detected signals from the oldes…
EP 7
One evening in early September 1859, a spectacular blood-red aurora borealis appeared across America. Earlier that same day, in a leafy gar…
EP 8
A look at two missions attempting one of the most difficult feats of space exploration - to collect a rock from another world. This episode…
EP 9
The future of Britain's space programme, examining plans for the first UK spaceport in Scotland and the development of a new rocket system.…
EP 10
A report on BepiColombo, a spacecraft sent on a seven-year journey to the heart of the solar system to study Mercury. The objective is to d…
EP 11
Chris Lintott visits an observatory aboard a jumbo jet, which carries an infra-red telescope able to observe space from the vantage point o…
