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10 Episodes 2017 - 2017
Episode 1
30 mins
The team unveil the most detailed 3D map of the Milky Way ever, which reveals that there may be 50 per cent more stars in the galaxy than previously thought.
Episode 2
30 mins
The team travel to the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands where they take control of some of the world's largest telescopes to view the most spectacular sights in the night sky.
Episode 3
30 mins
How our knowledge of the universe has been transformed in the last 60 years, with contributions from Jim Al-Khalili, Dallas Campbell and Monica Grady.
Episode 4
30 mins
The team have been granted rare access to the Vatican and its observatory, the Specola Vaticana, where they explore its rich history and contemporary cutting-edge science.
Episode 5
30 mins
The team looks at the trans-Neptunian objects - a vast number of strange, dark, icy worlds - which played a crucial role in the evolution of our solar system.
Episode 6
30 mins
As shooting stars vaporise in the atmosphere, a small part of some of them falls to earth as dust. Chris Lintott and Maggie Aderin-Pocock investigate.
Episode 7
30 mins
Chris Lintott and Maggie Aderin-Pocock explore four major ways in which future space exploration has been changed by the discoveries of the Cassini mission.
Episode 8
30 mins
For the first time in a generation there are credible plans to go to the moon. The team examine this renewed interest, and ask why it's happening now.
Episode 9
30 mins
Covers detection of fast transient events, fast radio bursts, solar transient events and the October 2017 collision of two neutron stars.
Episode 10
30 mins
Celebrating one of the most profound, moving and enjoyable activities there is - the ancient art of looking up, studying and marvelling at the night sky.