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The Sky at Night Episodes

  1. The Signature for Life

    A look at a miniature spectrometer that may one day find evidence of Martian life.

  2. The Star of Bethlehem

    Patrick Moore and experts discuss what the biblical Star of Bethlehem may have been.

  3. The Lion's Storm

    Patrick Moore is joined by Dr John mason to discuss the expected Leonid meteor showers.

  4. Evolving Universe: Modern Views

    Discussion of the latest theories on inflation, dark energy and the accelerating Universe.

  5. Evolving Universe: Beginnings

    Patrick Moore is joined by Chris Lintott for a back-to-basics explanation of cosmology.

  6. Great Balls of Fire

    Continued discussion about the threat to the Earth from a Potentially Hazardous Object.

  7. Crash and Burn

    Discussion on small fragments of space debris that are constantly bombarding the Earth.

  8. Our Star

    Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott discuss the Sun and look back at various eclipses.

  9. Eye Spy...

    Patrick Moore learns how deep-sky images are produced at The Crendon Observatory.

  10. Meet the Neighbours

    Patrick Moore and Dr Monica Grady discuss the latest views on how life originates.

  11. A New View of Mars

    Patrick Moore discusses the latest images of Mars sent from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.

  12. Cassini: Next Stop Saturn

    Patrick Moore discusses recent studies of Jupiter made by the Cassini-Huygens probe.

  13. Genesis: Earth and Moon

    Discussion about how the Earth and Moon grew from billions of dust grains.

  14. Back to Basics:into Deep Space

    Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott continue their discussion of astronomical terms.

  15. Back to Basics

    Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott explain some of the basic terms used by astronomers.

  16. Is There Anybody Out There?

    The latest news on SETI's attempts to pick up radio messages from other worlds.

  17. The Quasar Chasers

    Patrick Moore talks to his guest, Dr Jasper Wall, about quasars.

  18. Target the Red Planet

    A look at recent meteorite findings in Antarctica, thought to have come from Mars.

  19. A Tale of Three Planets

    Small telescopes have shown details of the surfaces of giant planets Jupiter and Saturn.

  20. Hydrogen Hunters

    Dr Alan Wright explains what a new all-sky radio survey hopes to achieve.

  21. Mission To Jupiter

    The Galileo probe to Jupiter is due to send information about the giant planet. (1995)

  22. Comet Crash Update

    Patrick Moore discusses the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's 1994 Jupiter crash.

  23. Spring in the Sky

    Programme celebrating Patrick Moore's 500th appearance presenting the show.

  24. A Glitch in the System

    Patrick Moore discusses the Crab Nebula, the remains of a supernova.

  25. The Strangest Planet

    Patrick Moore reports on the remarkable discovery of planet moving around a neutron star.

  26. Galaxy in Creation?

    Patrick Moore discusses what seems to be the brightest object in the universe.

  27. Europe in Space

    Patrick Moore visits the European Space Agency to discuss the Ulysses space probe.

  28. The Unveiling of Venus

    Patrick Moore and Dr Peter Cattermole describe how the spacecraft Magellan will map Venus.

  29. Looking Back in Time

    Patrick Moore visits the William Herschel Telescope on La Palma in the Canary Islands.

  30. Neptune: Voyager's Last Planet

    Voyager 2 has been sending back remarkable new information about Neptune. (1989)

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