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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.