Episode guide
The Sky at Night: 2018
11 episodes · premiered Jan 14, 2018
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- Episode 1: The Invisible Universe Jan 14, 2018 The team reports on unnerving discoveries in the field of space science. Researchers estimate that 95 per cent of everything in the universe is "invisible", and while some of this number…
- Episode 2: The Mystery of 'Oumuamua Feb 11, 2018 The team investigates an astronomical detective story. In October 2017, astronomers spotted the first ever object to visit our solar system from outer space. They called it 'Oumuamua. Its…
- Episode 3: Mars: Red and Dead? Apr 8, 2018 Chris Lintott and Maggie Aderin-Pocock reveal the latest results from NASA's Curiosity and ESA's ExoMars TGO missions that are attempting to find signs of life on Mars. Andy Weir, author…
- Episode 4: Gaia: A Galactic Revolution May 13, 2018 Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Chris Lintott examine the new information about the Milky Way recorded by the ESA's Gaia space telescope over the past three and a half years, including new data…
- Episode 5: Jupiter: Up Close and Personal Jun 10, 2018 Nasa's Juno spacecraft is currently making its 13th orbit of Jupiter on one of the most ambitious and risky space missions ever undertaken. The astonishing images it has captured are not…
- Episode 6: Outback Astronomy Jul 8, 2018 Chris Lintott travels to the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Australia to find out how astronomers detected signals from the oldest stars in existence and what this discovery can…
- Episode 7: Death Star Aug 12, 2018 One evening in early September 1859, a spectacular blood-red aurora borealis appeared across America. Earlier that same day, in a leafy garden in the UK, a gentleman astronomer had noted a…
- Episode 8: Expedition Asteroid Sep 9, 2018 A look at two missions attempting one of the most difficult feats of space exploration - to collect a rock from another world. This episode checks in on the US and Japanese attempts to…
- Episode 9: Space Britannia Oct 14, 2018 The future of Britain's space programme, examining plans for the first UK spaceport in Scotland and the development of a new rocket system. The programme also examines a revolutionary new…
- Episode 10: First Rock from the Sun Nov 18, 2018 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 discover why the smallest planet in the solar…
- Episode 11: The Flying Telescope Dec 9, 2018 Chris Lintott visits an observatory aboard a jumbo jet, which carries an infra-red telescope able to observe space from the vantage point of 40,000 feet above sea level. Plus, a look at…