Star Diary

By BBC Sky at Night MagazineScience Astronomy

Star Diary episodes

November 07, 2022 Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 7 to 13 November 2022
The Moon glides past Uranus, the Pleiades and Castor & Pollux in this week's stargazing guide.
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15 min
November 04, 2022 Amazing cosmic facts
Astrophysicist Dr Jillian Scudder reveals some of the most mind-blowing facts about the universe, including why the Milky Way smells of raspberries, how the Moon has a whiff of gunpowder, what happens when galaxies collide and why our own galaxy is flatter than a credit card.
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44 min
October 30, 2022 Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 31 October to 6 November2022
In this week's stargazing guide: catch Saturn, Vesta and the Moon together, watch out for Jupiter on Bonfire Night.
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16 min
October 27, 2022 Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 24 to 30 October 2022
A partial solar eclipse and a Mars going into retrograde in this weekly stargazing guide.
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13 min
October 23, 2022 Piecing together the history of the Universe
How much do astronomers know about the evolution of the cosmos? Prof Nial Tanvir from the University of Leicester talks about the early Universe, the formation of the first stars and galaxies, redshift and gamma-ray bursts.

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26 min
October 20, 2022 Webb Telescope and the secrets of the Solar System
We spoke to University of Leicester planetary scientist Prof Leigh Fletcher about the James Webb Space Telescope, why it observes in infrared, what it has revealed about the planets of the Solar System so far, and what's yet to come.

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24 min
October 16, 2022 Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 17 to 23 October 2022
The Orionids meteor shower peaks this week, and Mercury passes by the binary star Porrima in our weekly stargazing guide.
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14 min
October 09, 2022 Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 10 to 16 October 2022
Watch out for Mars and the Pleiades as the Moon passes by as we run down this week's stargazing highlights.
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13 min
October 02, 2022 Star Diary: What’s in the night sky, 3 to 9 October 2022
In this week's stargazing guide, we take a look at the Moon's southern pole and catch asteroid Pallas as it glides past Sirius.
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16 min
September 28, 2022 Interview: A Brief History of Black Holes
What is a black hole? Are they really black? Are they really holes? How much do we actually know about them? Astrophysicist and YouTuber Dr Becky Smethurst reveals how black holes went from theoretical mysteries to objects we can photograph.
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35 min