The Sky at Night
Season 46 Episode 2 - Galactic Whirlpools
8.3 ?
1957
Documentary, News
In the depths of space there are giant tornadoes of cold, dusty gas and galactic whirlpools containing thousands of millions of stars. Patrick Moore is joined by Professor Chris Kitchin to discuss how these helices of the heavens are formed and to predict the fate of our own spiral galaxy, the Milky Way, when it collides with the Andromeda galaxy in 3,000 million years time.
Episodes in Season 46
1
The Signature for Life
2
Galactic Whirlpools
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3
A Tale of Two Bears
4
Twelve Men on the Moon
5
Forty-Five Years of Star-Gazing
6
Southern Eyes
7
The Birth and Death of the Universe
8
Stars in Your Eyes
9
Apocalyptic Asteroid
10
The Long Wave
11
Picture Perfect
12
Radio Revolution
13
