<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>August 2008 – Double Vision:</strong> The Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona promises a revolutionary way to look at the night sky. The light from its two eight-and-a-half metre mirrors
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>July 2008 – Rise of the Phoenix:</strong> Patrick Moore has an update on the NASA spacecraft Phoenix’s mission to Mars. After a month on the planet’s surface it has
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>June 2008 – The Battle of the Giants:</strong> Sir Patrick Moore finds out more about our two largest gas giants – Jupiter and Saturn. Dr Chris Lintott has the
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>April 2008 – The Sun, Revealed:</strong> It’s the start of a new solar cycle, and the spacecraft Ulysses faces retirement, but solar missions Stereo and SOHO are still revealing
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>March 2008 – Return to the Moon:</strong> With a new era of lunar exploration dawning as more probes are launched to try to unlock the Moon’s darkest secrets, Patrick
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>February 2008 – Messenger to Mercury:</strong> Mercury is a world of extremes and enigmas – the closest one to the Sun. The spacecraft Messenger, which has just reached it
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>January 2008 – Cosmic Debris:</strong> Patrick Moore investigates comet tails, meteorites and asteroids and discovers the terrible consequences of a cosmic collision with the Earth.… <a href="https://www.nightskyobserver.com/the-sky-at-night/sky-at-night-january-2008-cosmic-debris/" class="read-more"><b>Read the
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>December 2007 – Sputnik’s Children:</strong> Dr Chris Lintott finds out how British technology is leading the way in satellite science, while Sir Patrick Moore investigates the threat from space
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>December 2007 – Last Man on the Moon:</strong> On the 14th of December 1972, Captain Eugene Cernan left the moon to return to Earth. He had no idea that,
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>November 2007 – Meteor Mania:</strong> Patrick Moore is joined by Dr Brian May and Jon Culshaw to watch the cosmic firework display known as the Perseid meteor shower.… <a