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The Sky at Night: 2019

11 episodes · premiered Jan 13, 2019

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  1. Episode 1: Beyond Pluto Jan 13, 2019 On 1 January 2019, Nasa's New Horizons probe notched up another historic first: the first ever Kuiper belt fly-by. Its target was 2014 MU69, a chunk of ice and rock about four billion…
  2. Episode 2: Is Cosmology in Crisis? Feb 10, 2019 Ever since we discovered that distant galaxies are racing away from us, there has been a heated debate over just how fast the Universe is expanding. At the beginning of the 21st century…
  3. Episode 3: Marsquake! Apr 14, 2019 Marsquake! This month's episode follows Insight, NASA’s latest mission to the Red Planet, as it goes in search of the secrets buried deep below Mars’s surface. By listening for tremors…
  4. Episode 4: Supermassive Black Hole May 12, 2019 The team reveals how the first picture of a supermassive black hole was captured. The photograph of the hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy was released in April.
  5. Episode 5: Return to the Moon Jun 9, 2019 In the first of two programmes to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landings, the Sky at Night team take a look at the latest plans to return to the Moon. Recently…
  6. Episode 6: The Moon, the Mission and the BBC Jul 14, 2019 To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo mission to put a man on the moon, The Sky at Night looks back through the archives to tell the story of how the BBC reported the moonshot…
  7. Episode 7: Space Mission Special Aug 11, 2019 The programme goes behind the scenes as the European Space Agency selects its next mission, which will be launched in 2028, meeting British teams vying to have their ideas selected…
  8. Episode 8: Alien Worlds Sep 8, 2019 Astronomers have found more than 4,000 planets circling stars other than our own. What do we know about these alien worlds and how have we managed to detect them?
  9. Episode 9: Question Time Oct 13, 2019 A one-hour special in which The Sky at Night team face a live studio audience to answer their questions about the mysteries and wonders of the universe.
  10. Episode 10: Rosetta: The Comet's Tale Nov 10, 2019 The Rosetta mission to comet 67P was the first time a spacecraft landed on a comet's surface. What has this icy body taught us about the dawn of the solar system and the origins of life on…
  11. Episode 11: Review of the Year Dec 8, 2019 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…