Astronomy
# astronomy - Friday 5 April, 2013
Comet visible in Irish skies tonight
Comet PANSTARRS will be seen next to the Andromeda Galaxy in the northwest.
# astronomy - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Astronomers reveal the smallest planet ever discovered by humans
Earth, meet your new baby cousin: Kepler 37b.
# astronomy - Thursday 3 January, 2013
NASA considering plan to drag an asteroid into lunar orbit
Researchers have confirmed to NewScientist that NASA is considering plans to put another natural satellite in orbit around our own.
# astronomy - Thursday 27 December, 2012
Don’t miss: Tomorrow’s the last full moon of 2012
It’s called an oak moon, don’t you know.
# astronomy - Tuesday 25 December, 2012
2012: The year in space exploration
Landing on Mars, meteor showers and fixing the space station with a toothbrush – it’s been quite a year.
# astronomy - Wednesday 19 December, 2012
Nearby star is good candidate for Earth-like planets: study
Located 12 light years away, Tau Ceti has five planets that orbit it in a balmy zone which gives the best chance for nurturing life, astronomers say.
# astronomy - Saturday 15 December, 2012
Column: Why it’s important to look at the stars – literally
It’s good to be curious about a world outside our own, because being inquisitive in the past has gotten us where we are today, writes Conor Farrell.
# astronomy - Thursday 13 December, 2012
Geminid meteors to rain on Ireland tonight
Stargazers will be able to see a shooting star per minute without the use of a telescope or binoculars.
# astronomy - Sunday 9 December, 2012
Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore dies at 89
British astronomer and broadcaster Sir Patrick Moore passed away peacefully at his West Sussex home earlier today, according to a family statement.
# astronomy - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
View of the full moon and Jupiter from Samuel Beckett bridge
No need for a telescope to see the moon and Jupiter next to each other in tonight’s sky…
# astronomy - Wednesday 21 November, 2012
Astronomers get rare glimpse of icy, dwarf planet
‘Makemake’ is one of five dwarf planets known to exist on the edge of our Solar System – but very little has been known about it until this point.
# astronomy - Monday 5 November, 2012
Cheese! Mars Curiosity rover sends back its first high-resolution self-portrait
Curiosity has used its ‘hand lens imager’ to take 55 photos of itself – and stitch them into one single giant image.
# astronomy - Friday 5 October, 2012
Look out for a celestial spectacle in the skies tonight
The Moon and Jupiter will line up spectacularly close together tonight, Astronomy Ireland has said.
# astronomy - Saturday 22 September, 2012
Did you see the meteor shower over Ireland last night?
Fireballs were spotted in the night sky around Ireland last night…
# astronomy - Thursday 30 August, 2012
Blue moon to be visible tomorrow night
This month the universe has decided to throw in a second full moon for the price of one.
# astronomy - Tuesday 28 August, 2012
Behold! Mankind’s first high-resolution photo from another planet
NASA has released the first high-resolution photo from the Curiosity rover. This is how the neighbours live.
“I nearly fell off my chair”: Dublin man makes second supernova discovery
Amateur astronomer Dave Grennan has been called Ireland’s ‘premier supernova hunter’ after discovering two supernovae in just two years.
# astronomy - Friday 24 August, 2012
VIDEO: NASA’s Curiosity rover makes its landing on Mars
This video of Curiosity’s landing is humanity’s first recording of a touchdown on another planet.
# astronomy - Monday 20 August, 2012
The sun is rounder than we previously thought. No, really
A new two-year study – monitoring suspected changes in the star’s shape – reveal a more rounded sphere than expected.
# astronomy - Thursday 9 August, 2012
Meteors to rain down on Earth over coming week
Eyes to the sky, Astronomy Ireland are expecting a celestial firework show this weekend.
# astronomy - Wednesday 11 July, 2012
Hubble telescope spots fifth moon near Pluto
The irregular-shaped moon is less than 23 km wide, according to NASA. No wonder they never spotted it before now…
# astronomy - Thursday 5 July, 2012
CERN head scientist adds another date to Dublin visit this month
Just as team in Geneva make headway in ‘God particle’ search, their Director General will speak here on the work of the Large Hadron Collider.
# astronomy - Tuesday 3 July, 2012
PIC: If Jupiter were as close to Earth as the moon is…
One word: Wow.
# astronomy - Saturday 23 June, 2012
Explainer: Why the world isn’t going to end – an astronomer reveals all
Worried about solar flares? The Mayan calendar? The planet Nibiru? Astronomer Conor Farrell answers all your wildest questions.
# astronomy - Wednesday 6 June, 2012
VIDEO: Venus passes in front of the sun for the last time before 2117
The ‘Transit of Venus’ occurs in pairs, and won’t be seen again this century – but NASA, thankfully, took this video.
# astronomy - Monday 21 May, 2012
The Daily Fix: Monday
Your nightly round-up of the day’s biggest news stores…
# astronomy - Tuesday 1 May, 2012
Ever seen a ‘super moon’? Well, you can this weekend…
… assuming it’s not cloudy. Ahem.
# astronomy - Thursday 19 April, 2012
Meteor shower will be visible from Ireland this weekend
Earth is about to move into a cloud of dust and debris left by a comet – treating us to one of the best meteor showers this week.
# astronomy - Thursday 29 March, 2012
Mars Watch: Tonight’s your chance to see the red planet
Giant telescopes set up around country for public to use.
# astronomy - Monday 26 March, 2012
Bright stars: What to see in the sky tonight
Jupiter, Venus and a thin slice of crescent moon to be highly visible at 8.30pm.
# astronomy - Monday 12 March, 2012
‘Double Planet’ in the skies tonight, as Venus and Jupiter blaze together
The brightest and second-brightest planets in the sky will come extremely close to one other tonight – and it will all be visible with the naked eye.
# astronomy - Tuesday 28 February, 2012
Planets to align over Ireland after sunset tonight
Keep an eye on the skies tonight as Venus, Jupiter and Mercury are set to align with the moon this evening.
# astronomy - Monday 20 February, 2012
There’s a $5m lump of moon rock in a dump in Finglas
An astronomer tells the BBC that a piece of rock collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts is sitting in a dump in North Dublin.
# astronomy - Saturday 4 February, 2012
Jupiter and Venus on view for Irish astronomers
Meanwhile, NASA has released its first footage of the far side of the Moon…
# astronomy - Friday 27 January, 2012
What do you mean you missed it? An asteroid just flew past Earth
An asteroid measuring 11m in diameter came five times closer than the moon at around 4pm – but that’s still 60,000km away.
# astronomy - Thursday 19 January, 2012
€670m satellite to be named after Swords boy Adam, 10
Adam Vaughan is the Irish winner of a pan-European competition to have a new navigational satellite named after him.
# astronomy - Tuesday 17 January, 2012
Mystery Moroccan rocks ‘fell from Mars’, say scientists
Chunks of meteorite found in Morocco in December, thought to have fallen in July, came from Mars millions of years ago.
# astronomy - Tuesday 6 December, 2011
‘New Earth’ found in distant solar system
Nasa has called the discovery of Kepler 22-b a “major milestone on the road to finding Earth’s twin”.
# astronomy - Friday 25 November, 2011
The most habitable alien planets ranked
The planets most likely to support life – human or otherwise – have been ranked by an international team of scientists… and there’s some good and bad news.
# astronomy - Monday 14 November, 2011
Astronomy Ireland lecture asks: what happens when the Sun dies?
Longing for a lecture on how your home planet is going to be consumed by a fiery ball of apocalyptic hell? Well, you’re in luck…
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