The Sky at Night: The Milky Way

Aired 1974-03-20

The Milky Way, made up of countless faint stars, can easily be seen in the evening sky this month. Tonight Patrick Moore describes this luminous band which stretches from one horizon to the other, and explains how it forms part of the huge Galaxy of stars in which we live. The latest news will also be given of Mariner 10, the space probe now nearing Mercury, which on 29 March should send back the first close-range pictures of the planet's surface.

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Episodes

Season

12 episodes

The Sky at Night: The Milky Way

Positional Astronomy

Saturn - The Ringed Planet

The Milky Way

Life in the Universe

The Daylight Star

The Heart of the Scorpion

Shooting Stars

Choosing a Telescope

Lord Rosse's Great Telescope

The Changing Force of Gravity

Eros - Wanderer in Space

The Year of the Planets