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The Sky at Night
BBC Four

S04E08: Measuring the Universe

The Sky at Night · 1960
Aired 30 Aug 1960 at 9:00pm (UTC)
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Synopsis

Patrick Moore talks to Sir Harold Spencer Jones F.R.S. The former Astronomer Royal about measuring distances which are literally astronomical. The greatest distance ever measured is that of a recently discovered galaxy whose light takes five thousand million years to reach the earth.

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