Season 21
13 episodes
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A passionate astronomer battles personal demons while uncovering cosmic mysteries, revealing the profound connection between the universe and human emotion.
Episodes
Sirius is now at its best in the evening sky. It is one of our nearest stellar neighbours, and is much more luminous than the sun. Patrick Moore and lain Nicolson discuss some of the questions associated with Sirius.
How big is the universe - and does it have a boundary? Distances on the astronomer's scale are very hard to appreciate. Patrick Moore and Dr. Ron Maddison discuss them in this programme, and explain how to describe them in everyday terms.
First detailed photographs of Mercury, were obtained by the space-probe Mariner 10. Maps of Mercury have been drawn from these photographs by Arthur Cross and he joins Patrick to explain how the maps were made and what they have told us.
Every month, since April 1957, The Sky at Night has presented the changing scene. In this 20th anniversary programme Patrick Moore discusses the past and the future with some of Britain's leading figures in astronomy.
Sunspots are known to increase and decrease over an 11-year cycle. Patrick and Dr. Ron Maddison discuss the possible causes of this apparent irregularity in the solar cycle, and talk about some of the other features of the sun's surface.
Astronomy programme.