The Sky at Night
The Expanding Universe
The team explores the expansion of the universe and the questions it raises about how the cosmos works. Chris Lintott travels to the University of Oxford to find out about cosmic microwave background, the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, while Maggie Aderin-Pocock investigates supernovae and discovers how they can be used to measure cosmic distances
The Sky at Night airs on BBC Four HD at 11:50 PM, Wednesday 10 September. (Subtitles.)
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Maggie Aderin-Pocock
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Chris Lintott
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Pete Lawrence
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