Stargazing Live

Seasons

2011

7.9

Professor Brian Cox and Dara O Briain host three days of live stargazing featuring epic images from observatories around the globe.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Episode #1.1

Wannabe stargazer Jonathan Ross gets a crash course in planet spotting in his own back garden; while in Hawaii, Liz Bonnin reports from the edge of a volcano to help explain how the Earth was formed.

S1 • E2

Episode #1.2

Liz Bonnin shows us the sun in a different light - live from Hawaii; while novice star spotter Jonathan Ross discovers the key to observing constellations. Plus astronomer Mark Thompson demonstrates how to find our nearest galaxy, Andromeda.

S1 • E3

Episode #1.3

The search for extraterrestrial life is the subject of Liz Bonnin's report atop one of the world's highest observatories in Hawaii, Brian chats to the crew of the International Space Station as they orbit the earth at 17,500 miles an hour, and Dara experiences what it is like to be in space.