Episode guide
The Sky at Night: 1972
13 episodes · premiered Jan 5, 1972
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- Episode 1: The Great Bear Jan 5, 1972 The Great Bear is the most familiar and conspicuous star-pattern in the night sky all the year round: but it is not exactly what it seems. Patrick Moore explains that, although its seven…
- Episode 2: X-Ray Stars Feb 2, 1972 The first X-ray source far out in space was detected nine years ago. Since then, 100 more have been found. But what are they? Patrick Moore talks to Professor Peter Willmore and Dr Kenneth…
- Episode 3: Mars - A Dynamic World Mar 1, 1972 Mars could have water and life. This is the astonishing information now coming back from the Mariner 9 orbiting probe. Patrick Moore discusses the evidence in the latest photographs with a…
- Episode 4: What Do You Want to Know? Mar 27, 1972 What is a neutron star? a quasar? a pulsar? a black hole in space? Patrick Moore answers your questions.
- Episode 5: Fifteenth Anniversary Apr 12, 1972 The Sky at Night with Patrick Moore started on 24 April 1957. In tonight's special edition, Patrick Moore looks back, with Commander Henry Hatfield, at the astonishing changes and advances…
- Episode 6: The Tenth Planet? May 24, 1972 Patrick Moore explains why Planet X has been so difficult to detect, and what kind of place this dim, cold world at the limits of our solar system would be.
- Episode 7: Midsummer and Megaliths Jun 21, 1972 How much did our prehistoric ancestors know about the movements of the sun and moon? Patrick Moore is at Stonehenge to watch the midsummer sun rise over the Heel Stone, and to discuss with…
- Episode 8: Jupiter - The Colossal Planet Jul 19, 1972 An unmanned spacecraft, Pioneer F, is on its way to Jupiter, the largest planet in our system and one of the most mysterious. Patrick Moore explains why Jupiter puzzles astronomers, and…
- Episode 9: The Andromeda Galaxy Aug 16, 1972 The Great Spiral in Andromeda is one of the most spectacular objects known to astronomers. Patrick Moore describes our nearest galactic neighbour and other galaxies in our 'local group.'
- Episode 10: An Exploded Planet? Sep 18, 1972 There may once have been in the solar system an extra planet, destroyed in the remote past and producing the fragments we now know as asteroids. Patrick Moore talks about the 'missing'…
- Episode 11: Mars Oct 2, 1972 New information about Mars is being received from the American space-probe Mariner 9. Patrick Moore and Arthur Cross talk about what this means, and show some of the new charts of the…
- Episode 12: Collapsing Stars Oct 30, 1972 Are there such things as 'black holes in space' - old stars which have collapsed in on themselves and lost their light? Patrick Moore discusses with Professor Samuel Tolansky, FRS, the…
- Episode 13: Tycho's Star Dec 4, 1972 Four hundred years ago this month, the famous astronomer Tycho Brahe saw a brilliant new star blaze overhead near the 'W' of Cassiopeia. This was a supernova, one of only three in recorded…