Season 30
13 episodes
30 min. per episode
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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
How much is known about the sun? We know that it is a huge nuclear furnace that sends out electrified particles, which affect the tails of comets and much else. Patrick gives the results of the latest research into our nearest star.
Patrick Moore is joined by the leading NASA experts to give the latest news and pictures of what Voyager 2 has to tell us about this mysterious green world of Uranus.
News from the comet comes as the Giotto spacecraft plunges deep into the glowing dust and gases of its coma. Will Giotto be destroyed by that deadly hail, or will it win through, to send back the first pictures of the mysterious object.
In this programme Sir Patrick Moore looks at constellations in the spring sky and presents some new pictures of Uranus.
When the planet Saturn was first examined telescopically in 1610, it was believed by Galileo to be a triple world. Patrick Moore shows what can be seen this month, while Saturn is best placed, with a small telescope.
Astronomy programme.