Tagged: Astronomy
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Astronomers detect the merging of two massive galaxies News
23.05.2013 Scientists have pinpointed the merging of two galaxies when the universe was just 3bn years old using images taken from the European Space Agency’s Herschel space observatory. -
Watch the ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse live News
09.05.2013 An annular solar eclipse will be taking place between 9-10 May when the moon will block part of the sun to create a ‘ring of fire’ sight. While the spectacle will only be... -
Herschel space observatory finishes imaging the cold cosmos News
29.04.2013 The European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed that Herschel, the largest infrared space telescope ever launched, has exhausted its supply of liquid helium coolant and is ending... -
ESA warns about urgent need to act on space debris News
25.04.2013 There is an urgent need to remove orbiting space debris that could potentially disrupt future satellites and to fly satellites in the future without creating new fragments –... -
Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler inspires interactive Google Doodle News
15.04.2013 Internet search giant Google has given mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler the Google Doodle treatment today, on the 306th anniversary of his birth. -
Watch out for the International Space Station over Dublin sky tonight News
10.04.2013 Stargazers are set to be in for a treat tonight as the International Space Station (ISS) will be passing over Dublin at around 9.49pm. And provided that the skies are clear,... -
Soyuz crew arrive at space station after six-hour express flight News
29.03.2013 The Soyuz spacecraft has successfully docked with the international Space Station after its six-hour spaceflight – the fastest ever manned flight to the orbiting laboratory. The... -
Planck space mission maps out oldest light in universe News
21.03.2013 The universe is 13.8bn years old, 100m years older than previous estimates, a new map of the oldest light in the universe by the European Space Agency mission Planck has revealed. -
First of two comets to be visible without help this year to appear tomorrow News
11.03.2013 Two comets are expected to be visible to the naked eye this year in a rare celestial event, with the first one, 2011 L4 (PANSTARRS), set to dazzle stargazers in the northern... -
Google Doodle illustrates Nicolaus Copernicus’ heliocentric model on his 540th birthday News
19.02.2013 To mark the 540th birth date of Polish Renaissance mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, Google has created an animated doodle on its homepage depicting the solar... -
NASA to mark 10th anniversary of Columbia disaster today News
01.02.2013 Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Columbia space shuttle disaster, which resulted in the deaths of its seven astronauts. NASA is marking the anniversary with ceremonies at... -
New space start-up plans to launch spacecraft to mine asteroids by 2015 News
22.01.2013 A new US space company by the name of Deep Space Industries is set to launch today, with the aim of sending spacecraft into space by 2015 to hunt for and explore asteroids that... -
Russia to send unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2015 News
15.01.2013 Russia’s federal space agency Roscosmos is planning to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2015, with the spacecraft set to launch from Russia’s new cosmodrome that will... -
Could there be 17bn Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way? News
08.01.2013 Scientists using NASA’s Kepler telescope have estimated that there are potentially 17bn other planets similar in size to planet Earth in our Milky Way. -
Canadian astronaut tweets photo of Dublin from space News
07.01.2013 Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield, who is currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS), has been causing a stir amongst Twitter users in recent weeks as he... -
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Astronomers discover potentially habitable planet 12 light-years away News
19.12.2012 A group of astronomers may have detected a planet that could support human life and which is hosted by the Earth’s nearest single sun-like star Tau Ceti, at just 12 light-years... -
Geminid meteor shower set to enchant stargazers over coming days News
12.12.2012 Get ready to feast your eyes on a shooting star spectacle, as the annual Geminid meteor shower is on track to peak on 13 and 14 December. -
Scientists spot features on Saturn moon resembling Pac-Man icon News
27.11.2012 Astronomers using images taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn have revealed an infrared heat pattern on the icy moon Tethys that is shaped like the famous... -
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli to talk science in Dublin tomorrow News
16.11.2012 Paolo Nespoli, an astronaut with the European Space Agency (ESA) who has made two trips into space, will be giving a lecture in Dublin tomorrow as part of the Science Week...