The Sky at Night: Beyond Pluto

Aired 2019-01-13

On 1 January 2019, Nasa's New Horizons probe notched up another historic first: the first ever Kuiper belt fly-by. Its target was 2014 MU69, a chunk of ice and rock about four billion miles (approximately 6.4 billion kilometres) from Earth, dubbed Ultima Thule, a Latin phrase meaning a distant, unknown region. It is the most distant fly-by in history, and it is believed the data New Horizons gathers will shed new light on the solar system's early days. Chris Lintott reports from the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland to bring the latest news and pictures from this extraordinary mission.

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Episodes

Season

11 episodes

The Sky at Night: Beyond Pluto

Beyond Pluto

Is Cosmology in Crisis?

Marsquake!

Supermassive Black Hole

Return to the Moon

The Moon, the Mission and the BBC

Space Mission Special

Alien Worlds

Question Time

Rosetta: The Comet's Tale

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