Star Diary

By BBC Sky at Night MagazineScience Astronomy

Star Diary episodes

May 15, 2021 Interview: How to photograph a black hole
Astronomer Heino Falcke reveals how an international science team photographed a black hole for the first time.
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36 min
May 06, 2021 Interview: Andy Weir, author of The Martian
The Martian author, Andy Weir, talks to us about his new novel Project Hail Mary.
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40 min
April 30, 2021 Star Diary: What's in the night sky, May 2021
Discover the stars, planets, conjunctions and other observing highlights in the night sky this month.
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35 min
April 28, 2021 Interview: Genetic engineering for spaceflight
Geneticist Dr Christopher Mason reveals how we could reengineer human genetics to survive on another planet.
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33 min
April 25, 2021 The Disordered Cosmos
Astrophysicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explores some of the Universe's greatest unsolved mysteries.
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41 min
April 23, 2021 How the Great Debate changed astronomy forever
101 years since astronomy's Great Debate challenged our understanding of the Universe.
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31 min
April 19, 2021 Interview: Light pollution from satellites
We talk with John Barentine from the International Dark Sky Association about an emerging source of light pollution – satellites.
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30 min
March 31, 2021 Star Diary: What's in the night sky, April 2021
Discover the stars, planets, conjunctions and other observing highlights in the night sky this month.
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37 min
March 25, 2021 Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space
We look back on cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's historic spaceflight.
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47 min
March 22, 2021 Interview: How to photograph an exoplanet
Astronomer Beth Biller reveals the new instrument that can directly image planets orbiting distant stars.
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27 min