The Sky at Night
S04E08
S04E08· aired 8/30/1960

Measuring the Universe

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Overview

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.