The Sky at Night - Season 67 / Year 2023
Season 67 / Year 2023
Episodes
The Search for Alien Life
The Sky at Night team investigate the latest science used in the hunt for extraterrestrial life, including a major mission to Jupiter's icy moons.
Will an Asteroid Destroy Earth?
The Sky at Night team explores the threat of an asteroid impact on earth and meets the space scientists who are developing methods of planetary defence that sound like the stuff of science fiction.
The UK Space Race
The Sky at Night team investigates the science and engineering helping the UK to blast into space. Chris visits a rocket company near Glasgow to find out how rockets are built.
Is There Anybody out There?
The team investigates the controversial world of alien communication. If we discover aliens, how would we contact them, and should we communicate with them at all?
Black Holes: Searching for the Unknown
The Sky at Night team investigate the science of black holes and discover the incredible techniques being used to uncover their secrets.
The Very Large Telescope
The Sky at Night team travels to the heart of Chile's Atacama Desert to explore one of the most advanced observatories in the world - the Very Large Telescope, or VLT.
Question Time Special
A special Question Time edition of the programme, recorded at the University of Exeter as part of the British Science Association's Science Festival.
The panel is chaired by science journalist Dallas Campbell and made up of The Sky at Night presenters Chris Lintott, Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Pete Lawrence, who are joined on stage by Dr Claire Davies, who studies star and planet formation, and Dr Hannah Wakeford, who specialises in the atmospheres of exoplanets.
The panel answer questions covering all things astronomical from The Sky at Night's avid viewers and from audience members. We also hear about updates from the Voyager missions to life on other planets and discover where the panel would want to send future space probes if they had the chance.
The Sky at Night Meets The Infinite Monkey Cage
In a special episode to mark the end of another season, The Sky at Night teams up with Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage to talk all things amateur astronomy.
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