# astronomy - Monday 21 January, 2019
The phenomenon was the only lunar eclipse that was visible in Ireland this year.
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# astronomy - Thursday 3 January, 2019
A supermoon later this month is the first of three in a row.
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# astronomy - Tuesday 17 July, 2018
The Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the first four of Jupiter’s moons in 1610.
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# astronomy - Wednesday 16 May, 2018
In plain sight on Observatory Lane.
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# astronomy - Sunday 29 April, 2018
“This is the first time we’ve shown shape and age are related for all kinds of galaxies.”
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# astronomy - Friday 30 March, 2018
The discovery could revise or even upend theories of how galaxies are formed.
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# astronomy - Wednesday 31 January, 2018
The spectacle will be visible in clear skies above Australia, Asia and some parts of the US and Eastern Europe.
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# astronomy - Sunday 7 January, 2018
Tabby’s Star has been inexplicably dimming and brightening sporadically like no other for years.
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# astronomy - Friday 8 September, 2017
That’s according to Astronomy Ireland.
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# astronomy - Saturday 2 September, 2017
The “star” was actually a colossal hydrogen explosion which produced a burst of light 300,000 times brighter than our Sun.
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# astronomy - Monday 21 August, 2017
Ages, is the answer.
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# astronomy - Saturday 12 August, 2017
The moon at at 80% illumination and could outshine some of the shooting stars as they pass through the sky.
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# astronomy - Thursday 27 July, 2017
Ireland is to be part of a huge Europe-wide telescope.
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# astronomy - Sunday 12 March, 2017
The experiment has been compared to a desert version of the Hollywood movie The Martian.
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# astronomy - Friday 10 February, 2017
The eclipse will officially begin at 10.30 but dimming will not be visible until after 11.
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# astronomy - Tuesday 31 January, 2017
You don’t need a telescope for this one.
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# astronomy - Saturday 7 January, 2017
“Less than 0.1% of all observed galaxies are Hoag-type galaxies.”
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# astronomy - Sunday 1 January, 2017
Saturn, Venus and shooting stars are set to feature across Irish skies in 2017.
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# astronomy - Saturday 12 November, 2016
“When you go to places like Wicklow, Kerry, Galway or Mayo and you have some of the clearest skies in Europe.”
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# astronomy - Tuesday 3 May, 2016
The ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 is 39 light years from earth, and orbited by three planets.
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# astronomy - Tuesday 23 February, 2016
Astronomy Ireland is advising people to go outdoors and check out the beautiful spectacle.
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# astronomy - Sunday 7 February, 2016
Simply breathtaking.
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# astronomy - Monday 9 November, 2015
The explosion was most likely caused by a space rock colliding with earth, Astronomy Ireland said.
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# astronomy - Sunday 27 September, 2015
It’s the last total lunar eclipse with a red shadow you’ll see for a while as the next one won’t be visible from Ireland until 2019, writes Conor Farrell.
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# astronomy - Friday 25 September, 2015
*Weather permitting, OF COURSE.
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# astronomy - Friday 31 July, 2015
*If you can see past the clouds, that is.
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# astronomy - Monday 27 April, 2015
And by any chance did you see where parts of it landed?
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# astronomy - Monday 2 March, 2015
The massive planet will be visible to the naked eye – even from brightly lit cities.
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# astronomy - Monday 9 February, 2015
A former NASA scientist will speak in Dublin tonight about the missions.
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# astronomy - Monday 19 January, 2015
A photographer in Dalkey managed to capture this amazing shot over Dublin.
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# astronomy - Friday 9 January, 2015
Comet Lovejoy is paying a visit.
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# astronomy - Tuesday 6 January, 2015
It’s chance of being habitable? “Promising.”
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# astronomy - Wednesday 24 December, 2014
It could be the International Space Station or it could be…
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# astronomy - Sunday 21 December, 2014
They’re going to try to capture an image of supermassive black hole.
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# astronomy - Monday 8 September, 2014
Just mind the werewolves.
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# astronomy - Saturday 23 August, 2014
Comet Jacques will be visible in the skies over Ireland this weekend, emitting a green cyanide trail.
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# astronomy - Sunday 13 July, 2014
Last night’s supermoon was the first of three expected to happen over the next few months.
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# astronomy - Friday 4 July, 2014
Twinkle, twinkle little star.
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# astronomy - Sunday 22 June, 2014
These occur so high in the atmosphere that astronauts on the ISS can see them not too far below them.
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