Broadcast date: August 2010
Astronomers based in the UK have discovered the brightest and most massive star to date. But how did it get so big? Sir Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott are joined by one of the team who discovered the star, Dr Richard Parker.

Star Wars: Clone Wars is a 9 volume series of trade paperbacks published by Dark Horse Comics between 2003 and 2006 that collect various comics dealing with the Clone Wars. It is to be distinguished from the quarterly, graphic-novella series and monthly comic series that take place during the events showed in the TV show Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series), which started in December 2009.

Out in deepest space lurks a force of almost unimaginable power. Explosions of extraordinary violence, are blasting through the Universe every day. If one ever struck our Solar System it would destroy our Sun and all the planets. For years no one could work out what was causing these awesome explosions. Now scientists think they have identified the culprit. Its the most extreme object ever found in the Universe; they have christened it a hypernova.