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Stargazing Live is a British live television programme on astronomy that was broadcast yearly on BBC Two over three nights every winter from 2011 to 2017. The series was primarily presented by scientist Brian Cox and comedian and amateur astronomer Dara Ó Briain with support from TV presenter and biochemist Liz Bonnin and astronomer Mark Thompson.
Halley's Comet is a short-period comet that is consistently visible to the naked eye from Earth, [16] appearing every 72–80 years, [17] though with the majority of recorded apparations (25 of 30) occurring after 75–77 years. It last appeared in the inner parts of the Solar System in 1986 and will next appear in
The asteroid and comet belts orbit the Sun from the inner rocky planets into outer parts of the Solar System, interstellar space. [16] [17] [18] An astronomical unit, or AU, is the distance from Earth to the Sun, which is approximately 150 billion meters (93 million miles). [19] Small Solar System objects are classified by their orbits: [20] [21]
Horizon is a current and long-running BBC popular science and philosophy documentary programme. Series one was broadcast in 1964 and as of July 2020 it is in its 56th series. Over 1,250 episodes have been broadcast (including specials) with an average of 23 episodes per series during the 56-year run. 1964–1969 – 135 episodes
David Clifford Jewitt (born 1958) is a British-American [citation needed] astronomer who studies the Solar System, especially its minor bodies. [1] He is based at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is a Member of the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, the Director of the Institute for Planets and Exoplanets, Professor of Astronomy in the Department of Physics and ...
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is one of the brightest known co m ets, coming around every 71 years, according to NASA. It earned the nickname of “devil comet” in 2023 when an outburst caused the comet ...
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Space: 1999 is a British science-fiction television programme that ran for two series from 1975 to 1977. [2] In the premiere episode, set in the year 1999, nuclear waste stored on the Moon's far side explodes, knocking the Moon out of orbit and sending it, and the 311 inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, hurtling uncontrollably into space.