Episode guide
The Sky at Night: 2001
13 episodes · premiered Jan 8, 2001
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- Episode 1: Genesis - Earth and Moon Jan 8, 2001 As a new millennium begins we take a look at how our Earth and Moon came to be. Patrick Moore is joined by Professor Chris Kitchin to discuss how distant planets of other suns, ancient…
- Episode 2: Cassini: Next Stop Saturn Feb 5, 2001 On December 30 2000, the Cassini-Huygens space probe sailed past Jupiter, its last fly-by before arriving at Saturn and its moon, Titan, in 2004. Patrick Moore is joined by Dr John…
- Episode 3: A New View of Mars Mar 5, 2001 For the last two years, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor has been sending back exciting new pictures of the red planet. The spacecraft has now collected more information about Mars than all…
- Episode 4: Pictures from the Red Planet Dec 17, 2001
- Episode 5: Meet the Neighbours Apr 30, 2001 Could life exist elsewhere in our Solar System? This question has long been asked, but our understanding of our cosmic neighbourhood is constantly changing. Patrick Moore is joined by Dr…
- Episode 6: Eye Spy... May 28, 2001 Patrick Moore visits one of the UK's newest and most exciting observatories, The Crendon Observatory, where Gordon Rogers demonstrates how he produces amazing deep-sky images of distant…
- Episode 7: Our Star Jun 25, 2001 The Sun has been in the news again, it is at the peak of its 11 year cycle of activity and there have been large solar flares, many sunspots and good displays of aurorae. It has also been…
- Episode 8: Crash and Burn Jul 23, 2001 The Earth is constantly bombarded by small fragments of space debris, but somewhere in the Solar System a sizeable asteroid or comet is probably on a collision course with Earth. We don't…
- Episode 9: Great Balls of Fire Aug 20, 2001 Patrick Moore continues his discussion with Jay Tate and Lembit Opik about the threat to the Earth from a Potentially Hazardous Object. They look at the disastrous environmental effects…
- Episode 10: Evolving Universe: Beginnings Sep 17, 2001 Patrick Moore is joined by Chris Lintott for a back-to-basics explanation of cosmology. Do current theories explain the Universe's 13,000 million year evolution? Can the Universe's fate be…
- Episode 11: Evolving Universe: Modern Views Oct 15, 2001 In the second of two programmes on cosmology, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott look at the latest theories on inflation, dark energy and the accelerating Universe.
- Episode 12: The Lion's Storm Nov 5, 2001 he dark, moonless sky of mid November may be filled by a spectacular storm of shooting stars as this year's Leonid meteors burn brightly in the upper atmosphere. Patrick Moore is joined by…
- Episode 13: The Star of Bethlehem Dec 10, 2001 When Venus is brilliant, the question is often asked: can Venus have been the Star of Bethlehem? The answer is certainly 'no', but we still do not know what the star was, if anything…