The Sky at Night: The Billion Pixel Camera

Aired 2015-01-11

The Milky Way, our galaxy, is a magnificent sight in the night sky, but we know surprisingly little about it for certain. What is its shape? How many stars does it actually contain? What lies at its centre? The Gaia space telescope will answer these questions, being armed with the most advanced camera to leave our planet, and it will allow us to see our galaxy as we've never seen it before. The Sky at Night visits the factory in Chelmsford that made the astonishing sensor at the heart of the mission.

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Episodes

Season

11 episodes

The Sky at Night: The Billion Pixel Camera

The Billion Pixel Camera

What Have UFOs Done for Us?

Hubble: The Five Greatest Images of the Cosmos

Venus, Earth's Twin

Rosetta Update - A Comet's Story

Pluto Revealed

Cosmic Blasts

Playing With a Clockwork Universe

Volcanoes of the Solar System

Second Earth?

The Real Star of Bethlehem: A Christmas Special