The Sky at Night
Season 15 Episode 8 - How Far Are the Stars?
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1957
Documentary, News
The nearest star - not counting our own sun, which is a star - is 25 million million miles from us. Patrick Moore uses a school cricket-pitch to show how the distances of the stars have been worked out: and he explains that, because the light of stars travels so far to reach us, we see many of them not as they are now but as they were centuries ago.
Episodes in Season 15
1
The Approach of Mars
2
Things are Seldom What They Seem
3
Sirius, the Dog-Star
4
A Black Hole in Space?
5
Jupiter - the Other Magnetic Planet
6
Orbiting Space-Stations
7
Tracking the Stars
8
How Far Are the Stars?
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9
Mars Comes Close
10
The Life and Death of a Star
11
Kepler, Genius and Mystic
12
Mars
13
