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The Sky at Night with Sir Patrick Moore has been reporting on space missions, astronomical events and cosmic discoveries, since its start in 1957. Every month, Sir Patrick is joined by his team of astronomer's: Dr Chris Lintott, Pete Lawrence, Paul Abel and Dr Chris North.

logo for The Sky at Night - A Journey through Space and Time
The Sky at Night - A Journey through Space and Time

Patrick Moore looks back over five decades of The Sky at Night, recalling the history of space exploration and the major astronomical discoveries.

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logo for The Sky at Night - A Spin around the Sun
The Sky at Night - A Spin around the Sun

Patrick Moore offers advice on how to observe the sun and its many brilliant features. Chris Lintott demonstrates how to split light into a spectrum.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Apollo 11: A Night to Remember
The Sky at Night - Apollo 11: A Night to Remember

Using archive sound, satellite footage and film taken by the astronauts, Patrick Moore presents the story of mankind's first journey to another world.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Autumn Sky
The Sky at Night - Autumn Sky

Sir Patrick Moore hosts an autumn equinox party in his garden and talks to Dr John Mason about what to look for in the night sky at this time of year.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Battle of the Giants
The Sky at Night - Battle of the Giants

Planets Jupiter and Saturn have moons which perplex with their strange appearance. Two astronomers discuss which planet, and its moons, we should return to.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Big Bangs
The Sky at Night - Big Bangs

The world of astronomy. Sir Patrick Moore discovers more about gamma ray bursts, and Dr Chris Lintott is at NASA to find out the latest news from the Mars Polar explorer.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Birthday Party
The Sky at Night - Birthday Party

Fifty years after the first programme went out, Sir Patrick Moore reflects on how astronomy has changed with some amusing clips from the programme's archives.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Black Holes and Black Magic
The Sky at Night - Black Holes and Black Magic

Sir Patrick Moore uses magic to explain the mysteries of black holes and the wonders of the Universe.

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The Sky at Night - Black Holes and Black Magic

Sir Patrick Moore uses magic to explain the mysteries of black holes and the wonders of the Universe.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Close Encounters
The Sky at Night - Close Encounters

Patrick Moore discusses the chances of an encounter with an asteroid, after telescopes recently got a unique view of an asteroid disintegrating in our atmosphere.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Coronas of the Sun
The Sky at Night - Coronas of the Sun

Sir Patrick Moore investigates the longest total eclipse of the sun for many years in India and China, with the help of Pete Lawrence and the latest pictures.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Cosmic Debris
The Sky at Night - Cosmic Debris

Patrick Moore investigates comet tails, meteorites and asteroids and discovers the terrible consequences of a cosmic collision with the Earth.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Double Vision
The Sky at Night - Double Vision

Astronomy. Dr Chris Lintott and Sir Patrick Moore report on Arizona's Large Binocular Telescope, the world's most most advanced optical telescope.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Events on Jupiter
The Sky at Night - Events on Jupiter

In July 2009 a large object crashed into Jupiter and in May 2010 its southern equatorial belt disappeared. Patrick Moore and guests discuss the latest events.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Exploring Mars
The Sky at Night - Exploring Mars

Sir Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott explore Mars, which astronomers, writers and philosophers have speculated about the possibility of containing life for centuries.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Galaxy Zoo
The Sky at Night - Galaxy Zoo

Patrick Moore looks at the results recorded by more than 150,000 volunteers who've taken part in the Galaxy Zoo project, which aims to classify over a million galaxies.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Ghostly Travellers
The Sky at Night - Ghostly Travellers

Comets are strange and exotic objects, the remnants from dead stars. Patrick Moore discusses NASA's EPOXI mission, which hopes to rendezvous with comet Hartley 2.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Herschel in the Red
The Sky at Night - Herschel in the Red

Patrick Moore discusses what Herschel, Europe's biggest and most expensive space satellite, will do once it begins its infrared exploration of the universe.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Home from Home
The Sky at Night - Home from Home

Patrick Moore finds out more about a mysterious new Earth-like planet on our cosmic doorstep that has rocked the astronomical community.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Jodrell Bank
The Sky at Night - Jodrell Bank

Patrick Moore celebrates the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, responsible for the discovery of quasars, gravitational lenses and groundbreaking research into pulsars.

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The Sky at Night - Jodrell Bank

Patrick Moore celebrates the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, responsible for the discovery of quasars, gravitational lenses and groundbreaking research into pulsars.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Jupiter Rising
The Sky at Night - Jupiter Rising

Patrick Moore and Jupiter experts John Rogers and David Rothery examine the huge scar in the planet's gas cloud caused by the impact of a large, mysterious object.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Last Man on the Moon
The Sky at Night - Last Man on the Moon

Chris Lintott visits the Johnson Space Centre to talk to Apollo 17's Commander, Eugene Cernan, about his memories of being the last man on the Moon in 1972.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Life
The Sky at Night - Life

Over 400 extra-solar planets have been discovered. Is anything living on them and if so, is it intelligent? Sir Patrick Moore debates the question of life in the universe.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Light Echoes
The Sky at Night - Light Echoes

Light echoes are reflections of light from distant objects in space. Sir Patrick Moore and his guests explain what they look like and how they can be seen.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Light Fantastic
The Sky at Night - Light Fantastic

Sir Patrick Moore charts the development of the telescope over four centuries and fasts forward to meet the astronaut who repaired the Hubble Space Telescope.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Lunar Impact
The Sky at Night - Lunar Impact

Observers now know the Moon holds water. Witnessing the lunar impact of NASA's new probe are Chris Lintott, at the Palomar observatory, and Patrick Moore, at home.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Mapping the Moon
The Sky at Night - Mapping the Moon

Patrick Moore presents a guide to the most familiar body in the night sky, whilst Chris Lintott gives tips on how to observe the moon.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Martian Adventures
The Sky at Night - Martian Adventures

Patrick Moore celebrates the success of the Martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Chris Lintott reports from NASA's jet propulsion lab about the Phoenix mission.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Messenger to Mercury
The Sky at Night - Messenger to Mercury

Star-gazing documentary series. As the spacecraft Messenger finally reaches Mercury, it offers up enthralling pictures of the planet's hidden side.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Meteor Mania
The Sky at Night - Meteor Mania

In his garden, Patrick Moore is joined by Dr Brian May and Jon Culshaw to watch the cosmic firework display known as the Perseid meteor shower.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Monster Star
The Sky at Night - Monster Star

Astronomers discovered the brightest and most massive star to date, and Sir Patrick Moore and Dr Chris Lintott are joined by one of the team who discovered the star.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Neighbourhood Watch
The Sky at Night - Neighbourhood Watch

Containing trillions of stars, Andromeda is the largest galaxy in our neighbourhood. Patrick Moore unravels some mysteries in the star systems that surround us.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Other Worlds
The Sky at Night - Other Worlds

Patrick Moore wonders if there is life beyond Earth, while Chris Lintott spends the night with the giant Keck Telescope and meets alien hunter Dr Jill Tarter from SETI.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Return to the Moon
The Sky at Night - Return to the Moon

Patrick Moore finds out about British ambitions to go to the Moon and Chris Lintott travels to NASA to hear about plans to blast a crater in the lunar surface.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Ring World
The Sky at Night - Ring World

Patrick Moore is joined by Professor Michele Dougherty and Professor Carl Murray to discuss Saturn and its rings system. Pete Lawrence shows how to observe it in May.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Rise of the Phoenix
The Sky at Night - Rise of the Phoenix

The NASA mission Phoenix has been on Mars a month. Dr Chris Lintott travels to Tucson, Arizona to find out how the spacecraft is doing.

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The Sky at Night - Robonet

Patrick Moore investigates Robonet, the network of telescopes which links the cosmos directly to a laptop and can react immediately to phenomena such as gamma ray bursts.

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The Sky at Night - Robonet

Patrick Moore investigates Robonet, the network of telescopes which links the cosmos directly to a laptop and can react immediately to phenomena such as gamma ray bursts.

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The Sky at Night - Saturn

Dr Chris Lintott advises on how best to see Saturn, whilst Sir Patrick Moore finds out the latest from the Cassini mission which is currently orbiting Saturn.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Sputnik's Children
The Sky at Night - Sputnik's Children

Chris Lintott finds out how British technology is leading the way in satellite science, and Patrick Moore looks at the threat from space debris facing astronauts.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Star Birth
The Sky at Night - Star Birth

Patrick Moore is joined by Derek Ward-Thompson and Chris North to examine the latest stunning images of star-forming areas of our galaxy from the Herschel telescope.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Sting in the Tail
The Sky at Night - Sting in the Tail

Sir Patrick Moore examines the summer constellation Scorpius, and locates our nearest black hole.

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logo for The Sky at Night - The Apollo Miracle
The Sky at Night - The Apollo Miracle

The 29th July 1969 heralded one of the greatest achievements in human exploration when man stepped on the moon. Forty years on, Patrick Moore and guests reminisce.

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logo for The Sky at Night - The Fountains of Enceladus
The Sky at Night - The Fountains of Enceladus

Sir Patrick Moore talks to the scientists who are trying to unlock the secrets of Saturn's mysterious moon Enceladus, which has amazing ice geysers.

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logo for The Sky at Night - The Grand Collision
The Sky at Night - The Grand Collision

Patrick Moore looks ahead two billion years to the time our own Milky Way collides with Andromeda, which will rip apart the fabric of both galaxies.

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The Sky at Night - The Grand Collision

Patrick Moore anticipates the collision of our own Milky Way with Andromeda in two billion years' time. He explains the role that dark matter will play.

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logo for The Sky at Night - The Great Bear
The Sky at Night - The Great Bear

Patrick Moore and his team look at Ursa Major, a highly recognisable constellation and a rich source of galaxies, double and variable stars and the Hubble Deep Field.

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logo for The Sky at Night - The Great Observatories
The Sky at Night - The Great Observatories

Following the Hubble telescope's overhaul, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott examine its latest findings and the data from the Spitzer and Chandra telescopes.

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logo for The Sky at Night - The Merry Dancers
The Sky at Night - The Merry Dancers

The world of astronomy. Dr Chris Lintott travels to a radar facility in northern Norway to discover the causes behind the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights.

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logo for The Sky at Night - The Spirit of Mars
The Sky at Night - The Spirit of Mars

Featuring an interview with Prof Steve Squyres, investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission, about the attempts to rescue the ensnared rover Spirit.

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logo for The Sky at Night - The Splendour of the Sun
The Sky at Night - The Splendour of the Sun

Sir Patrick Moore is joined by the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor John Brown and Dr Chris Davis as they take a tour of the sun.

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logo for The Sky at Night - The Sun in Splendour
The Sky at Night - The Sun in Splendour

Patrick Moore is joined by Professor John Brown and Dr Chris Davis for a tour of the Sun, Earth's primary source of energy, without which life would not exist.

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logo for The Sky at Night - The Sun Revealed
The Sky at Night - The Sun Revealed

The world of astronomy with Patrick Moore. The start of a new solar cycle means the Sun's activity is about to hot up.

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logo for The Sky at Night - The Universe from Atlantis
The Sky at Night - The Universe from Atlantis

Sir Patrick Moore and Dr Chris Lintott meet the crew of Atlantis to talk about the future of spaceflight and the legacy of the Space Shuttle.

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logo for The Sky at Night - The Winter Sky
The Sky at Night - The Winter Sky

Sir Patrick Moore is joined by Dr Chris Lintott and Pete Lawrence, plus a host of stargazers searching for the best the winter night skies have to offer.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Time Lord
The Sky at Night - Time Lord

In an anniversary programme, Patrick Moore travels back in time to see the first recording of The Sky at Night which took place 50 years ago, and then forward to 2057.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Twinkle Twinkle
The Sky at Night - Twinkle Twinkle

January provides the perfect opportunity to observe stars, planets and galaxies. Sir Patrick Moore takes us on a tour of the winter sky.

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logo for The Sky at Night - Volcanoes of the Solar System
The Sky at Night - Volcanoes of the Solar System

Sir Patrick Moore looks at how volcanoes on the planets and moons of the solar system can influence our own planet.

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logo for The Sky at Night - We Just Don't Know
The Sky at Night - We Just Don't Know

Astronomy. Sir Patrick Moore celebrates the 666th edition of the programme by asking cosmologists exactly how much we know about the Universe.

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