The Sky at Night

The Invisible Universe

The Sky at Night – The Invisible Universe

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The Sky at Night – The Invisible Universe: reports on one of the most unnerving discoveries in space science – that most of the universe is missing.     We live in a material world, so instinctively we know what normal matter is – the world around us, the planets, stars and interstellar dust. But scientists currently estimate that 95 per cent of everything in the universe is actually – one way or another – invisible. Some of this is ordinary matter that we just can’t easily see. But there’s also stuff that’s much more weird. For instance, there’s a […]

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The Sky at Night – Venus, Earths Twin

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The Sky at Night – Venus, Earths Twin – How can two such similar planets have become so different? One is the crucible of life, the other an inferno with a surface scorched by raining acid, yet both began as almost identical bodies. With Venus prominent in the sky in May, the team explores our nearest neighbour, discovering how it formed and how ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has revealed the secrets of its atmosphere.     Dr Lucie Green explores what happened to leave Venus with searing temperatures and acid rain, and talks to Climate expert Dr Hugo Lambert about

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