Tonight (Wednesday January 7th) at 10.00pm you can catch a documentary about BLAST on BBC Four. The Balloon-Borne Large Aperture Submilimetre Telescope has an interesting story behind it and luckily the brother of the head investigator is a film maker. He followed the international science team literally around the world as they tried to map star-forming regions and to find the origins of the galaxies.
Several folks here at Cardiff were on the team, so I’m sure you’ll see them flitting about in the background twiddling knobs and such. I know one team member who was interviewed but was too rude to make the final edit.
The BLAST page on the BBC website tells you the various dates it will be broadcast, and of of course if you’re in the UK you can catch it for some time on the amazing iPlayer.
