The Sky at Night S2017E1: Guide to the Galaxy
- Aired: 2017-01-08
- Time: 22:00:00
- Runtime: 30 minutes
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Overview
All good travel guides need a map, and the team unveil the most detailed 3-D map of the Milky Way ever produced. A map that reveals that there may be 50 per cent more stars in the galaxy than we previously thought. American astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson gives us a guided tour of the strangest stars we have ever observed, and we discover that the Milky Way may already be colliding with our neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda.