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Stargazing Live
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2013 (60 mins)
Dara O Briain and Professor Brian Cox return for a new series celebrating the wonder of our amazing night sky. Live from Jodrell Bank observatory, the team kick off with a look at the mysteries of the moon...
Stargazing Live
Episode 2
- Broadcast
- 2013 (60 mins)
Black holes Sutherland and SALT Dark skies Dulverton UFOs. The second episode takes a look at galaxies and black holes. Live from South Africa, Liz Bonnin observes the two closest dwarf galaxies to us, the...
Stargazing Live
Episode 3
- Broadcast
- 2013 (60 mins)
Dulverton Edge of the Solar System Exoplanets Super WASP aliens. The third and final programme of the series concentrates on the ongoing search for planets outside our own Solar System and the accompanying...
Light And Dark
Ep1 - Light
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
The first in a two-part series about our quest to discover, understand and manipulate light and dark. The story of how we used light to reveal the cosmos begins in the 3rd century BC when, by trying to...
Light And Dark
Ep2 - Dark
- Broadcast
- 2013 (59 mins)
Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of how we went from thinking we were close to a complete understanding of the universe to realising we had seen almost none of it. Today, our best estimate is that...
Bang Goes The Theory Special
Drake’s Equation: The Search For Life
- Broadcast
- 2010 (59 mins)
For many years our place in the universe was the subject of theologians and philosophers not scientists. But in 1960 one man changed all that. Dr Frank Drake was one of the leading lights in the new science...
The Cosmos: A Beginner’s Guide
Life In The Cosmos
- Broadcast
- 2007 (29 mins)
We report from the Allan Telescope Array (ATA), an impressive group of telescopes in Northern California at the cutting edge in the search for intelligent life. We meet the Godfather of extraterrestrial...
The Cosmos: A Beginner’s Guide
Building The Universe
- Broadcast
- 2007 (29 mins)
We report from the Large Hadron Collider, the biggest particle accelerator in the World, located in a 27km tunnel 100m underneath Geneva! Here scientists intend to recreate the Big Bang and reveal the...
The Cosmos: A Beginner’s Guide
Seeing The Universe
- Broadcast
- 2007 (29 mins)
We report from the Atacama Desert in Chile, 4000 metres above sea level, where the VLT - the Very Large Telescope - is helping astronomers see further than ever before. We learn about the mind-blowing images...
The Cosmos: A Beginner’s Guide
Space Exploration
- Broadcast
- 2007 (29 mins)
We report from the European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands and get to grips with their future plans. We join astronauts on Mars - only these ones are just practicing - deep in the...