Season 22
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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
Good astronomical telescopes are very expensive today, but there are many objects in the night sky which can be viewed with binoculars. Patrick gives advice on the types of binoculars which are most useful.
Patrick Moore talks about the Local Group of galaxies with Heather Couper, lecturer at the Caird Planetarium, Greenwich.
The Viking space-probes have been operating on Mars for nearly 2 years. We don't yet know whether life in any form exists there but many scientific discoveries have been made. Patrick talks to Professor Geoffrey Eglinton and Dr Garry Hunt
The asteroids or minor planets are among the most interesting of the junior members in the Solar System. Gordon Taylor, of the Royal Greenwich Observatory, describes his ingenious method of measuring their sizes.
How is a star born? We believe that with our telescopes we can see where fresh stars are being created. Patrick Moore talks about stellar birth, how a star develops and how every star, including our sun, must eventually die.
Astronomy programme.