The Sky at Night
La Palma - Gateway to the Universe
Season 2026 Episode 8
The team heads to La Palma in the Canary Islands, where giant new telescopes and cutting-edge science are opening extraordinary new windows on the universe. Back in the UK, Maggie Aderin travels to the University of Warwick to see Lisa Kelsey, an astrophysicist with a deep interest in explosive transients who is using data from a special robotic telescope at La Palma observatory GOTO-N to search for these transients
The Sky at Night airs on BBC Four HD at 12:30 AM, Wednesday 11 November. (Subtitles.)
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Chris Lintott
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Maggie Aderin
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Maggie Lieu
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