Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Is there another Earth? Adam Hart-Davis is on the summit of La Palma in the Canary Islands, searching for planets around other suns, some of which are too small to see.

Is there another Earth? Adam Hart-Davis is on the summit of La Palma in the Canary Islands, searching for planets around other suns. He discovers how it is possible to find planets too small to see, and tells the story of how the first ever planet outside our solar system was found - an event that rocked the world of astronomy. Janet Sumner visits the Virtual Planetary Laboratory, where they invent inhabited planets so that astronomers know what to look for.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 17 Sep 2007 19:00

Credit

Role Contributor
Presenter Adam Hart-Davis

Broadcasts