# astronomy - Friday 5 April, 2013
Comet PANSTARRS will be seen next to the Andromeda Galaxy in the northwest.
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# astronomy - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Earth, meet your new baby cousin: Kepler 37b.
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# astronomy - Thursday 3 January, 2013
Researchers have confirmed to NewScientist that NASA is considering plans to put another natural satellite in orbit around our own.
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# astronomy - Thursday 27 December, 2012
It’s called an oak moon, don’t you know.
# astronomy - Tuesday 25 December, 2012
Landing on Mars, meteor showers and fixing the space station with a toothbrush – it’s been quite a year.
# astronomy - Wednesday 19 December, 2012
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
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.
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# astronomy - Thursday 13 December, 2012
Stargazers will be able to see a shooting star per minute without the use of a telescope or binoculars.
# astronomy - Sunday 9 December, 2012
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
No need for a telescope to see the moon and Jupiter next to each other in tonight’s sky…
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# astronomy - Wednesday 21 November, 2012
‘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.
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# astronomy - Monday 5 November, 2012
Curiosity has used its ‘hand lens imager’ to take 55 photos of itself – and stitch them into one single giant image.
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# astronomy - Friday 5 October, 2012
The Moon and Jupiter will line up spectacularly close together tonight, Astronomy Ireland has said.
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# astronomy - Saturday 22 September, 2012
Fireballs were spotted in the night sky around Ireland last night…
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# astronomy - Thursday 30 August, 2012
This month the universe has decided to throw in a second full moon for the price of one.
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# astronomy - Tuesday 28 August, 2012
NASA has released the first high-resolution photo from the Curiosity rover. This is how the neighbours live.
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Amateur astronomer Dave Grennan has been called Ireland’s ‘premier supernova hunter’ after discovering two supernovae in just two years.
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# astronomy - Friday 24 August, 2012
This video of Curiosity’s landing is humanity’s first recording of a touchdown on another planet.
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# astronomy - Monday 20 August, 2012
A new two-year study – monitoring suspected changes in the star’s shape – reveal a more rounded sphere than expected.
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# astronomy - Thursday 9 August, 2012
Eyes to the sky, Astronomy Ireland are expecting a celestial firework show this weekend.
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# astronomy - Wednesday 11 July, 2012
The irregular-shaped moon is less than 23 km wide, according to NASA. No wonder they never spotted it before now…
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# astronomy - Thursday 5 July, 2012
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.
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# astronomy - Tuesday 3 July, 2012
# astronomy - Saturday 23 June, 2012
Worried about solar flares? The Mayan calendar? The planet Nibiru? Astronomer Conor Farrell answers all your wildest questions.
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# astronomy - Wednesday 6 June, 2012
The ‘Transit of Venus’ occurs in pairs, and won’t be seen again this century – but NASA, thankfully, took this video.
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# astronomy - Monday 21 May, 2012
Your nightly round-up of the day’s biggest news stores…
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# astronomy - Tuesday 1 May, 2012
… assuming it’s not cloudy. Ahem.
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# astronomy - Thursday 19 April, 2012
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.
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# astronomy - Thursday 29 March, 2012
Mars
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Giant telescopes set up around country for public to use.
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# astronomy - Monday 26 March, 2012
Jupiter, Venus and a thin slice of crescent moon to be highly visible at 8.30pm.
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# astronomy - Monday 12 March, 2012
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.
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# astronomy - Tuesday 28 February, 2012
Keep an eye on the skies tonight as Venus, Jupiter and Mercury are set to align with the moon this evening.
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# astronomy - Monday 20 February, 2012
An astronomer tells the BBC that a piece of rock collected by the Apollo 11 astronauts is sitting in a dump in North Dublin.
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# astronomy - Saturday 4 February, 2012
From The Daily Edge Planetwatch
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Meanwhile, NASA has released its first footage of the far side of the Moon…
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# astronomy - Friday 27 January, 2012
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
Adam Vaughan is the Irish winner of a pan-European competition to have a new navigational satellite named after him.
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# astronomy - Tuesday 17 January, 2012
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
Nasa has called the discovery of Kepler 22-b a “major milestone on the road to finding Earth’s twin”.
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# astronomy - Friday 25 November, 2011
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.
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# astronomy - Monday 14 November, 2011
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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