Figure representing stars in the Milky Way Size:S: 50 x 40cm actress who plays the character

actress who plays the character of secretary Joan in BBC comedy series

3rd August 1987

surmounted by a view of St Paul's Cathedral's dome from Fleet Street

the nearest star to the Sun

figures and barrels in the Belle Sauvage Yard

Figure representing stars in the Milky Way Size:S: 50 x 40cm actress who plays the characterPlate 15 figure 2 from the paper 'Astronomical observations and experiments tending to investigate the local arrangement of the celestial bodies in space, and to determine the extent an condition of the Milky Way', by William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 302 331. This simple figure of a circle (all naked eye stars) between two parallel lines (the breadth of the Milky Way) is Herschel's demonstration