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Space Rock Return |
8th Apr 2024 |
1 week ago |
20:30 - 21:00 |
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Season 255, Episode 1 - "Space Rock Return"
The Sky at Night team delve into Nasa's OSIRIS-REx mission and find out what it takes to analyse the tiny pieces of space rock that may tell us about the origins of life.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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The Sky at Night Meets The Infinite Monk... |
13th Nov 2023 |
5 months ago |
22:00 - 22:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 8 - "The Sky at Night Meets The Infinite Monkey Cage"
In a special episode to mark the end of another season, The Sky at Night teams up with Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage to talk all things amateur astronomy.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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Question Time Special |
9th Oct 2023 |
6 months ago |
21:00 - 21:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 7 - "Question Time Special"
A special question-and-answer edition of the programme, recorded at the University of Exeter as part of the British Science Association's Science Festival. Presented by Dallas Campbell, with panellists including Chris Lintott, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Pete Lawrence and Claire Davies.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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The Very Large Telescope |
11th Sep 2023 |
7 months ago |
20:30 - 21:00 |
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Season 255, Episode 6 - "The Very Large Telescope"
The Sky at Night team travels to the heart of Chile's Atacama Desert to explore one of the most advanced observatories in the world - the Very Large Telescope, or VLT.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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Black Holes: Searching for the Unknown |
14th Aug 2023 |
8 months ago |
21:00 - 21:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 5 - "Black Holes: Searching for the Unknown"
An investigation into the science of black holes and the techniques being used to uncover their secrets, which in turn help to answer even bigger questions about the universe.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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Is There Anybody out There? |
10th Jul 2023 |
9 months ago |
21:00 - 21:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 4 - "Is There Anybody out There?"
The Sky at Night team investigates the controversial world of alien communication. The search for life on other planets is one of the most fascinating subjects in science. But what is less reported is the work being done around the world to determine what happens next. If we discover aliens, how would we contact them, what should we say and should we communicate with them at all?We follow astrobiologist Doug Vakoch on a trip to the UK. Doug runs an organisation aiming to contact extraterrestrials and is here to meet with experts who can help with his mission, including Professor Arik Kershenbaum from the University of Cambridge. Arik is a zoologist who specialises in animal communication and xenolinguistics - the language of aliens. He explains how the common patterns in wolf and dolphin vocalisations can help us to form a message to send to space. Doug also meets Paul Quast, a researcher from the Beyond the Earth Foundation, who is assembling a ‘Companion Guide to Earth' for future humans and passing aliens.Exoplaneteer George Dransfield travels to the Jodrell Bank Observatory to meet astrophysicist Professor Tim O'Brien. Tim explains how scientists around the world use radioastronomy to listen for extraterrestrial signals. He demonstrates how we might identify an alien ‘technosignature' - a sign of an advanced technological civilisation from another planet.Professor Chris Lintott delves into the history of scientists trying to send messages to aliens, and he asks if we should really be trying to communicate with them at all.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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The UK Space Race |
12th Jun 2023 |
10 months ago |
21:00 - 21:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 3 - "The UK Space Race"
The Sky at Night team investigates the incredible science and engineering helping the UK to blast into space. We are now one of the biggest satellite building nations in the world, and the race is on to be the first company to successfully launch a rocket into orbit from British soil.Chris visits Skyrora, a rocket company near Glasgow, to find out how rockets are built and why launches so often go wrong. Skyrora are planning their first orbital launch later this year; Chris learns how each stage of their rocket is designed for a successful lift-off.Maggie is given a sneak preview of the brand new National Satellite Test Facility. Until now British-built satellites have been shipped abroad for the final tests of whether they can withstand the harsh environment of space. But this is all about to change with the opening of the huge NSTF. Maggie sees how a satellite up to 7,000kg will be vibrated to simulate launch conditions. She steps inside the vacuum chamber where they will be exposed to extreme temperatures. And she sees the construction of the enormous EMC, where communication signals can be tested in secret.A result of the rapidly expanding space industry is that nearly 900 objects have been launched into space in the last year. Chris meets Professor Andy Lawrence to talk about the impact this is having on astronomy and the images captured by telescopes such as Hubble.Another key issue is space debris – shrapnel from defunct missions and missile tests. Astronomers are currently keeping track of more than 23,000 pieces of debris larger than 10cm, and this space junk poses a danger to new satellites as well as the astronauts on board the ISS. Radio astronomer Professor Danielle George visits Clearspace, a company hoping to solve the space junk problem with technology designed to gently capture this debris in orbit.And our in-house stargazing expert Pete Lawrence shows us why June is a great month for solar observing as well as the summer asterisms.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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Will an Asteroid Destroy Earth? |
15th May 2023 |
11 months ago |
21:00 - 21:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 2 - "Will an Asteroid Destroy Earth?"
The Sky at Night team explores the threat of an asteroid impact on earth. Around 2,300 asteroids have been identified as ‘potentially hazardous', and it's thought that a million ‘near-earth objects' are yet to be accounted for. Detecting these possible threats is now a priority for space scientists. And they're developing methods of planetary defence that sound like the stuff of science fiction.Maggie meets Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, expert in asteroid observation, to learn how the latest technology monitors near-earth asteroids. He explains which ones are a current concern and why we missed the dangerous Chelyabinsk meteor – a 9,000-ton fireball that exploded in the sky above Russia. Could it happen again?Chris meets the Open University's Professor Simon Green, who has been involved in Nasa's recent planetary defence mission Dart. In this mission, a spacecraft was flown directly into an asteroid in a successful attempt to change its orbit, and the hope is that this could be repeated if an asteroid was identified as a real threat to earth. Simon demonstrates why smashing into an asteroid is even more complicated than it sounds.Our inhouse stargazing expert, Pete Lawrence, explains how to get a rare sighting of Jupiter passing behind the moon and why it is that we can see the moon in the daytime.And exoplaneteer George Dransfield is at Royal Holloway University to meet planetary scientist Dr Queenie Chan. Her recent analysis of the famous Winchcombe meteorite offers new evidence in support of asteroids bringing life – as well as destruction – to earth.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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#9 |
The Multiverse of Mystery |
14th Nov 2022 |
1 year ago |
22:00 - 22:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 9 - "The Multiverse of Mystery"
The Sky at Night in the Multiverse of Mystery is a magical journey into the far-flung ideas at the very edge of scientific knowledge, exploring the concepts that today seem like science fiction but may one day become science fact.Delving into the archive at the Royal Society, we look at the dreamers who first considered the possibility of travelling to the moon and black holes long before they could be proven to exist. From there, the team explore some ideas and theories that today could be dismissed as fanciful thinking.They imagine a world where a popular TV programme asks two scientists, Hiranya Peiris and Emma Chapman, to meet, have dinner and talk science, all under the watchful eye of maître d' Pete Lawrence.Meanwhile, Maggie Aderin-Pocock sails off to explore the realities of interstellar travel and astrobiologist Doug Vakoch explains some of the challenges of communicating with aliens. Astrophysicist Becky Smethurst is lost in a world of black and white holes, and Chris Lintott, as you have never seen him before, argues the case for a multiverse.Along with animation from the BBC Ideas team, this edition of The Sky at Night shines a very different light on the world of astrophysics.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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Review of the Year |
12th Dec 2021 |
2 years ago |
22:00 - 22:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 10 - "Review of the Year"
Chris and Maggie look back at some of the stories they have covered in 2021 in the Sky at Night's big review of the year.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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Science Fiction/Science Fact |
8th Dec 2019 |
4 years ago |
22:00 - 22:30 |
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Season 255, Episode 11 - "Science Fiction/Science Fact"
Looking back on the major stories of the year - from the New Horizons mission to the most distant world we have ever visited to the release of the first-ever picture of a black hole. The team relive the highlights and uncover the latest developments.
Type: Documentary |
Network: BBC Four |
Status: Running |
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