Hunt For The Death Star

First transmitted on Channel Four / Equinox, July 2001

The 30 year race to discover the source of the most violent explosions in the cosmos

In the 1960s, an American spy satellite detected mysterious bursts of intense radiation coming from deep space. The 30 year race to identify their source became the greatest detective story of modern astronomy. It recently ended in the discovery of the most violent explosions in the cosmos: events so ancient that they may signal the birth of the very first stars in the Universe, and so powerful that they are capable of destroying life on a galactic scale.

‘The often exquisite imagery is twinned with suitably cosmic music, making this thoroughly watchable’

The Times

‘A gripping what-done-it mystery’

Express
Credits
Directed by David McNab
Produced by Duncan Copp
and David Sington
Photography by Kris Denton
and Clive North
Edited by David Fairhead
Commissioned by Charles Furneaux
Distributed by Channel Four International