The Sky at Night · SEASON 62
Outback Astronomy
Episode 6 · 2018-07-08
- Documentary
- News
Episode overview
Chris Lintott travels to the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Australia to find out how astronomers detected signals from the oldest stars in existence and what this discovery can reveal about the formation of the universe. In February 2018, news broke that astronomers had seen the cosmic dawn - the moment when stars first formed, flooding the universe with light. What's remarkable is that this incredible event was discovered by an instrument the size of a ping-pong table in a remote corner of Western Australia.
Season 62 episodes
1. The Invisible Universe2018-01-14
2. The Mystery of 'Oumuamua2018-02-11
3. Mars: Red and Dead?2018-04-08
4. Gaia: A Galactic Revolution2018-05-13
5. Jupiter: Up Close and Personal2018-06-10
6. Outback Astronomy2018-07-08
7. Death Star2018-08-12
8. Expedition Asteroid2018-09-09
9. Space Britannia2018-10-14
10. First Rock from the Sun2018-11-18
11. The Flying Telescope2018-12-09
