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Our Galaxy

Cosmic wonderland: The pillars of creation

To the stargazers out there, let’s take a journey nearly 7,000 light-years away from earth through our cosmic wonderland otherwise known as space, where towering pillars of gas and dust form the birth of stars.     In the northern celestial hemisphere of the night sky, in the constellation Serpens (The Read more…

By Emma-Jayne Malcomson, 2 weeksJune 2, 2025 ago
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ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER YOUNG STARS IN A DISTANT, METAL-POOR GALAXY USING JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE

Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, together with former PhD student Venu Kalari and a team of international researchers, have identified young, pre-main sequence stars in the low-metallicity dwarf galaxy WLM, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). On Christmas Day 2021, NASA and ESA launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a Read more…

By Anna Taylor, 4 months ago
Gavin Ramsay

ESA due to launch Euclid this weekend

The first launch window for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid satellite will come into view on Saturday July 1st at 16.12 BST. Euclid should originally have been launched on a Soyuz launcher from French Guyana, but because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, all joint ventures with the Russian Space Read more…

By Gavin Ramsay, 2 yearsJune 30, 2023 ago
Latest News

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE – LATEST NEWS

It’s been just over two months since The James Webb Space Telescope was launched into space.  On Christmas Day 2021, Professor Michael Burton watched the launch online, whilst enjoying his Christmas dinner! So, what has happened since launch day and where is the telescope now? We find out more from Read more…

By Sinead Mackle, 3 yearsMarch 7, 2022 ago
Latest News

Engage your students in STEM learning through the awe and wonder of space

Armagh Observatory and Planetarium are a regional hub for education and knowledge building around the James Webb Space Telescope. We are keen to make teachers aware of free professional development sessions to support learning around the mission! Discovery Diaries, STFC, and the Webb UK campaign have teamed up to offer Read more…

By Sinead Mackle, 4 yearsJune 7, 2021 ago
Latest News

The 10 Biggest Astronomical Events 2021!

While 2020 was in many ways a strange and challenging year for many of us in one way or another, the heavens certainly gave us cause to look up and find some measure of celestial relief. Well there is good news! 2021 will be no different as we can prepare Read more…

By Nick Parke, 4 yearsJanuary 9, 2021 ago
Telescopes and Observatories

JWST: Profile of a Master Telescope

In many walks of life a single concerted effort to achieve the impossible will usually encounter opposition on all sides, however it appears that this reality is little diminished when it comes to astronomy. So for the largest space telescope in history to get off the ground and become that Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 11 yearsJuly 25, 2014 ago
Earth Satellites

Satellites: Everything You Need to Know

“Man must rise above Earth, to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives” Socrates (circa 399BC). Of course the philosopher Socrates would not have been thinking about satellites or spacecraft at this time, but his famous quote Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 11 yearsJuly 1, 2014 ago
Telescopes and Observatories

JWST: A Giant Cyclops to Reveal the Depths of Space

While HST’s successor is named after the architect of the revolutionary Apollo Moon missions, an obvious tribute to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s second administrator, James E. Webb, the name given is perhaps also symbolic of the aspirations of all those involved in the project, that with the telescope’s Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 11 yearsJune 10, 2014 ago
Earth Satellites

JWST: Finding Space for Hubble’s Successor

Although the concept of something being “there” but being hidden from our eyes under the cover of darkness is one that has disturbed usually one or other of us once upon a time, when it comes to space it’s hard to find an idea that thrills scientists and astronomers more. Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 11 yearsMay 21, 2014 ago
Stars

How Far Away is the Farthest Star?

Looking up in to the night sky it’s not difficult to see why the ancient Greeks believed that all the stars in the night sky were fixed on a celestial sphere revolving around the Earth and other planets. From our view on Earth the stars appear to be at a Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 12 yearsJune 17, 2013 ago
Earth Satellites

Hubble Space Telescope: Ten amazing facts you didn’t know

Gleaned from NASA and Hubblesite.org, here are some facts you may not know about the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).   1.      The HST’s history is longer than you might have thought, going back to just after World War II. In 1946, the astronomer Lyman Spitzer (1914-97) identified the main advantages Read more…

By Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, 14 yearsMarch 5, 2011 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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