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Grid Computing & Astronomy

Continuing our weekly series on the application of astronomy to technology, we have an piece written by Dmitrij Bisikalo; Professor at The Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Astronomy and the President of the International Astronomical Union’s Commission B1 on Computational Astrophysics. In this piece, he outlines the link between Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 4 yearsMay 16, 2019 ago
Earth Satellites

5 Awesome Satellites

Satellites, our lives wouldn’t be complete without them. Since the beginning of the Space Race, Satellites have become a major part of how we observe our Solar System and the Universe, and also keep a close eye on our own planet.

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 4 yearsMarch 22, 2019 ago
Earth Satellites

10 things you need to know about Space – 2019

Article written by: Heather Alexander, Education officer At the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium we have been having a look at all the things that are going to happen throughout the year and trying to select some of the events that we are most looking forward to. Needless to say this Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 4 yearsJanuary 18, 2019 ago
Earth Satellites

Interesting facts about the life on the International Space Station

Have you ever wondered what is it like to live in space? How you put things down when there’s no ‘up’ or ‘down’? How do you sleep when nothing holds you to your bed? How you wash your face when the water does not behave normally? Here are some interesting facts about life in space.

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 4 yearsSeptember 25, 2018 ago
Earth Satellites

As written by the students: Observing Asteroids

The Observatory and Planetarium has welcomed school students to visit for work experience. A previous Astronote described our work with the Faulkes Telescope Project. Below is an account written by three of our work experience students in 2018 March, based on the work done at Armagh Observatory and Planetarium by them and three other students.

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 5 years ago
Earth Satellites

K2 spots a rotating Helium Star

Recent observations of the helium star HD144941 have been obtained from space. Armagh astronomers Professor Simon Jeffery and Dr Gavin Ramsay have discovered that they show a light curve best explained by darker and lighter patches on the star’s surface coming into view as the star rotates with a period Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 5 yearsFebruary 1, 2018 ago
Earth Satellites

The 2018 Robinson Lecture: Professor Louise Harra tells us about how astronomers research the Sun

The 2018 Robinson Lecture will be given by Professor Louise Harra of University College London.  Her topic is about the Solar Orbiter, a new spacecraft to be launched to study the Sun. It will be held in the Archbishop’s Palace in Armagh on Wednesday 22 November, 2017, starting at 7pm. Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 5 yearsNovember 1, 2017 ago
Armagh Planetarium

Merging neutron stars and gravitational wave events — everything you need to know about that big announcement!

On Aug 14th 2017 LIGO and the Virgo Gravitational Wave detectors based in the USA and Italy detected the fourth merging Black Hole event. This was a triumph for both groups, but especially the Virgo group which had only started taking regular data earlier that month. It did leave many Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 5 yearsOctober 20, 2017 ago
Earth Satellites

What is happening with Gaia?

Gaia is a satellite launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) on 19 December 2013. It is essentially a census gathering information on over one billion stars, totalling an amazing 1% of the galaxy’s total population, measuring their positions, motion, brightness and colour. Gaia’s primary objective is to create the Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 5 yearsSeptember 29, 2017 ago
Earth Satellites

Polyus: the Real Death Star?

While suspicion, fear, and fantasy, at times were closely associated with the Cold War period in terms of how the USA and the USSR viewed one another’s respective actions, it became clear that space projects were not exempt from this mutual scrutiny either. One such project which did little to Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 7 yearsNovember 5, 2015 ago

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Hello and welcome to Astronotes, the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium’s official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from all those who work in our organisation, from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. We hope you will come here to learn what is hot and exciting, profound or even weird from worlds beyond ours . So that's the introduction out of the way, now on with the Universe!

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