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The Sky at Night

Season 19 · Episode 6

The Mysterious X-rays

0.0May 30, 1975

A strange force of X-rays from the sky has been discovered by instruments on board the British satellite Ariel-5. What is the object sending them out?

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Episodes

Episode 1Orion, the Hunter
Episode 2The New Northern Hemisphere Laboratory
Episode 3Algol: The Winking Demon
Episode 4Astronomy of The Infra-Red
Episode 5The Outer Planets
Episode 6The Mysterious X-rays
Episode 7The Hot Clouds of the Sun
Episode 8The New Moon
Episode 9The Galilean Satellites
Episode 10The Origin of the Universe
Episode 11New Star in Cygnus
Episode 12The Rocks on Venus
Episode 13The Search for Life in the Universe