The Sky at Night · SEASON 63

Beyond Pluto

Episode 1 · 2019-01-13

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Episode overview

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.

Season 63 episodes

1. Beyond Pluto2019-01-13 2. Is Cosmology in Crisis?2019-02-10 3. Marsquake!2019-04-14 4. Supermassive Black Hole2019-05-12 5. Return to the Moon2019-06-09 6. The Moon, the Mission and the BBC2019-07-14 7. Space Mission Special2019-08-11 8. Alien Worlds2019-09-08 9. Question Time2019-10-13 10. Rosetta: The Comet's Tale2019-11-10 11. Review of the Year2019-12-08