Today marks the 55th Birthday of BBC programme Sky at Night, a monthly documentary programme about astronomy. Hosted by Sir Patrick Moore, it is the longest-running programme with the same presenter in television history, with the first episode broadcast in April 1957.
The programme covers what is happening in the night sky at the time of broadcast and includes features that have covered a vast range of subjects including stellar life cycles, radio astronomy, artificial satellites, black holes, neutron stars to name but a few. It has also over the years featured a number of notable guests, in fact to many to mention here. In all the years it has been broadcast Sir Patrick Moore has missed just a single episode back in July 2004.
Asked once why the show was still on the air after so long, Sir Patrick Moore said "Astronomy's a fascinating subject. You look up... you can't help getting interested and it's there. We've tried to bring it to the people... it's not me, it's the appeal of the subject.". I must say I can see his point you just have to look up into the clear night sky to be amazed at the size of it all.
In the birthday special Sir Patrick Moore takes the audience on an epic journey to the very end of our known universe and point at which the light from further objects is yet to reach us. The team engage the warp drive and celebrate 55 years of The Sky at Night at the speed of light
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