The Sky at Night · SEASON 18
The Milky Way
Episode 3 · 1974-03-20
- Documentary
- News
Episode overview
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.
Season 18 episodes
1. Positional Astronomy1974-01-27
2. Saturn - The Ringed Planet1974-02-17
3. The Milky Way1974-03-20
4. Life in the Universe1974-05-15
5. The Daylight Star1974-06-12
6. The Heart of the Scorpion1974-07-10
7. Shooting Stars1974-08-07
8. Choosing a Telescope1974-09-04
9. Lord Rosse's Great Telescope1974-10-02
10. The Changing Force of Gravity1974-10-30
11. Eros - Wanderer in Space1974-11-26
12. The Year of the Planets1974-12-18
