27 Aug 2025

Space with Ezzy Pearson

From Nights, 9:15 pm on 27 August 2025

Time now to turn our gaze to the far reaches of space with a new voice here on Nights.

Ezzy Pearson is an expert in all things space, with more than a decade of experience in science journalism, including as Features Editor of BBC’s Sky at Night magazine.

She’s also the author of Robots in Space: The Secret Lives of Our Planetary Explorers and holds a PhD in Astrophysics from Cardiff University. 

Swirls of color ranging from orange, yellow, and white to various shades of teal, surround a black oval representing a supermassive black hole.

In this artist’s depiction, a white dwarf is orbiting the supermassive black hole. Photo: NASA /Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University