The Sky at Night
Season 24 Episode 11 - The Scintars
8.3 ?
1957
Documentary, News
In the constellation of Aquila, the Eagle, there is a faint star known rather unromantically as SS433. Lately, however, it has proved to be very unusual. Probably the result of a tremendous stellar explosion long ago, it seems to be a star accompanied by a tiny object expelling jets of gas. This new kind of supernova remnant has been termed a scintar. Patrick Moore talks about this puzzling object to Paul Murdin , one of the astronomers who discovered it.
Episodes in Season 24
1
Mapping the Sky
2
Saturn: The Disappearing Rings
3
The Man Who Discovered a Planet
4
The Multiple Mirror Telescope
5
Journey to the Centre of the Galaxy
6
Kitt Peak Observatory: the Solar Telescope
7
Quasars
8
The Mapping of Venus
9
Meteor Crater
10
Autumn Equinox
11
The Scintars
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12
Voyager I Reaches Saturn
13
