Five astronomical highlights the skies have in store in 2021
We’re starting another rotation around the sun. Here’s what to watch out for in the skies.
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We’re starting another rotation around the sun. Here’s what to watch out for in the skies.
It will be the second full moon of this calendar month, making it a “Blue Moon”.
The meteors will be visible all night from dusk until dawn.
There will be 20 times more shooting stars than a normal night on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The black hole is twice as big as scientists believed possible.
The brightest of the fireballs was at about 6.54 pm last night.
There won’t be another one for 2 years, so Astronomy Ireland is asking people to send photos of the eclipse into them.
The phenomenon was the only lunar eclipse that was visible in Ireland this year.
A supermoon later this month is the first of three in a row.
The Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the first four of Jupiter’s moons in 1610.
In plain sight on Observatory Lane.
“This is the first time we’ve shown shape and age are related for all kinds of galaxies.”
The discovery could revise or even upend theories of how galaxies are formed.
The spectacle will be visible in clear skies above Australia, Asia and some parts of the US and Eastern Europe.
Tabby’s Star has been inexplicably dimming and brightening sporadically like no other for years.
That’s according to Astronomy Ireland.
The “star” was actually a colossal hydrogen explosion which produced a burst of light 300,000 times brighter than our Sun.
The moon at at 80% illumination and could outshine some of the shooting stars as they pass through the sky.
Ireland is to be part of a huge Europe-wide telescope.
The experiment has been compared to a desert version of the Hollywood movie The Martian.
The eclipse will officially begin at 10.30 but dimming will not be visible until after 11.
You don’t need a telescope for this one.
“Less than 0.1% of all observed galaxies are Hoag-type galaxies.”
Saturn, Venus and shooting stars are set to feature across Irish skies in 2017.
“When you go to places like Wicklow, Kerry, Galway or Mayo and you have some of the clearest skies in Europe.”
The ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 is 39 light years from earth, and orbited by three planets.
Astronomy Ireland is advising people to go outdoors and check out the beautiful spectacle.
The explosion was most likely caused by a space rock colliding with earth, Astronomy Ireland said.
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.
*Weather permitting, OF COURSE.
*If you can see past the clouds, that is.
And by any chance did you see where parts of it landed?
The massive planet will be visible to the naked eye – even from brightly lit cities.
A former NASA scientist will speak in Dublin tonight about the missions.
A photographer in Dalkey managed to capture this amazing shot over Dublin.