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Stargazing Australia

Brian Cox and Dara O Briain head to Australia to check out the night sky - packed full of astonishing features like the Southern Cross and a remarkable view of the Milky Way.

Stargazing Live is back for its seventh year - this time promising to blow your mind with a totally new view of the night sky - live, from the bottom of the world!

Professor Brian Cox and Dara O Briain have packed their sunscreen and headed to Australia to gaze up at a sky that will be completely unfamiliar to viewers in the UK - packed full of the most astonishing features from constellations like the Southern Cross, famously featured on Australia's flag, to jewel-like clusters of stars and perfectly positioned planets. But capping it all is the most remarkable view of the Milky Way, arching overhead like a river of stars. Join them live as they finish a long night under the stars, and as dawn approaches in Australia.

Brian and Dara are joined by Liz Bonnin and Aussie outback-astronomer Greg Quicke as their guide to the southern sky. Surrounded by kangaroos, snakes and spiders, the team reveal the wonderful star-tales told by indigenous people, embark on a mission to catch a shooting star and celebrate Australia's role in rescuing the stricken Apollo 13 moon mission. Plus, we ask viewers' help in a challenge to find the missing ninth planet in the solar system.

59 minutes

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Tue 28 Mar 2017 20:00
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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:23

    Armando Trovajoli

    Il Magnifico Cornuto (M11)

  • 00:49

    Caribou

    Bees

  • 00:51

    Bastille

    Blame

  • 00:52

    Ed Sheeran

    Shape Of You

  • 00:53

    Laura Mvula

    Kiss My Feet (Glastonbury 2016)

Credits

Presenter Brian Cox
Presenter Dara O Briain
Participant Liz Bonnin
Participant Greg Quicke
Executive Producer Helen Thomas
Series Producer Paul King

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