Horizon: The End of the Solar System
The End of the Solar System
Season 52 Episode 5
The story of how the solar system will be transformed by the ageing Sun, before coming to an end in approximately eight billion years. Astronomers can predict how it will happen by analysing distant galaxies, stars and planets in their final moments, and the programme brings these predictions to life with a giant scale model of the solar system spread out all over a town in the American Midwest
Horizon: The End of the Solar System airs on BBC Four at 9:00 PM, Monday 16 February. (Subtitles.)
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George Harris
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Steve Crabtree
Series Editor