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![Spacecraft with a lenticular design (that is, shaped like a biconvex lens) were actively studied by NASA and US industry in the late 1950s and early òÀØ60s. A craft of […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Image-of-X-20-and-Lenticular-spacecraft-115x115.jpg "Flying Saucers From NASA")
![I was visiting the Tall Ships event in Dublin recently when I noticed something strange in the light blue daytime sky!ˆà Overlooking the River Liffey I could see something that […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Moon-Daytime-115x115.jpg "The Moon in the Daytime")
![So summer is officially over so goodbye to the long bright evenings and short warm nights and hello to autumn with its optimal night sky viewing with the longer nights.Everything […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Image-of-Galilean-Moons-115x115.jpg "Wonders of the September Sky 2012")
![Radio astronomy is the study of the radio frequencies emitted from stars, galaxies and other celestial objects. Radio waves are produced naturally from lightning and astronomical objects, or are produced […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Image-of-Karl_Jansky_radio_telescope-115x115.jpg "Karl Jansky: The Father of Radio Astronomy")
![Neil Armstrong was born in 1930 in Ohio and died in 2012 in Ohio. Between those two dates he became immortal on the Moon. Think about it, as long as […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/image-of-Armstrong-in-Gemini-spacesuit-115x115.jpg "Neil Armstrong R.I.P.")
![Once, about four billion years ago, an asteroid about a kilometre and a half across fell on our Moon.It fell unwitnessed by the brooding, lifeless Earth which loomed large in […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/image-of-lindsay-crater-115x115.png "A Piece of Armagh on the Moon: Image of the Month")
![Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is vaster than we puny humans can imagine.A huge (100 000 light years across) spiral of stars and nebulae embedded in the tenuous interstellar medium […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Map-of-MilkyWay-115x115.jpg "Finding Your Way in the Milky Way")
![IòÀÙm sure youòÀÙve heard the one:what do you get if you cross a sheep and a spacecraft?Or what about:what do you get if you cross a plane and a spaceship?Well […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/image-of-skylon_flight-115x115.jpg "Wings into Orbit: the Skylon Spaceplane Project")
![The hunt for planets located outside of our own Solar System is not a new concept.Since 1995 scientists and astronomers have been aware of these distant worlds orbiting their host […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/image-of-kepler-36c-rising-115x115.jpg "Too Close for Comfort")
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Hello, IòÀÙm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumòÀÙs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views 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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