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Astronomers focus on space-related topics, such as artificial satellites, black holes and neutron stars, and cover what is happening in the night sky at the time each edition is being made.

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Greenwich: A Journey Through Space and Time

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Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Pete Lawrence celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory by hosting a special dinner party at Flamsteed House in Greenwich for a host of science communicators. Chris Lintott meets Dr Louise Devoy in the conservation stores of the observatory to look at an object from 1919 that proved Einstein - and a fundamental new property of the universe - right

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John Aizlewood

Shortly after John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, began his tenure in 1675, the finest scientists of the era would gather at his home to discuss the latest developments regarding the universe. To celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory’s founding, Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Pete Lawrence have re-created the forum with the agile brains of today, who explain why time travels in one direction only. And Chris Lintott unearths an object that proves Einstein right, while those who have long wondered while those who have long wondered what rip-holes may be need wonder what rip-holes may be need wonder no more…

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rolenamePresenterMaggie AderinPresenterChris LintottPresenterPete LawrencePresenterBecky SmethurstDirectorSarah HiltonSeries producerAmena HasanExecutive producerEileen Inkson

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• Greenwich: A Journey Through Space and Time

  Summary

  Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Pete Lawrence celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory by hosting a special dinner party at Flamsteed House in Greenwich for a host of science communicators. Chris Lintott meets Dr Louise Devoy in the conservation stores of the observatory to look at an object from 1919 that proved Einstein - and a fundamental new property of the universe - right

  Review

  John Aizlewood

  Shortly after John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal, began his tenure in 1675, the finest scientists of the era would gather at his home to discuss the latest developments regarding the universe. To celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory’s founding, Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Pete Lawrence have re-created the forum with the agile brains of today, who explain why time travels in one direction only. And Chris Lintott unearths an object that proves Einstein right, while those who have long wondered while those who have long wondered what rip-holes may be need wonder what rip-holes may be need wonder no more…

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  rolenamePresenterMaggie AderinPresenterChris LintottPresenterPete LawrencePresenterBecky SmethurstDirectorSarah HiltonSeries producerAmena HasanExecutive producerEileen Inkson

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