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INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT

In the June episode of The Sky at Night, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees takes a look back over the last 50 years of astronomical innovations and progress.

As every reader of knows, astronomy is on a roll – and has been for the last 50 years. Increasingly powerful observational techniques, in space and on the ground, have revealed a succession of surprises. As someone which will dig into its archives to find footage of some of the astronomers and instruments who spearheaded a number of these key discoveries.

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