Guide to the Galaxy

Jan 08, 2017 on BBC FOUR at 10:00 PM

Summary

All good travel guides need a map, and the team unveil the most detailed 3D map of the Milky Way ever produced. A map that reveals that there may be 50 per cent more stars in the galaxy than we previously thought. American astronomer Neil deGrasse Ty... (more)son gives us a guided tour of the strangest stars we have ever observed, and we discover that the Milky Way may already be colliding with our neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda.

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Guest stars

Neil deGrasse Tyson