... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on March 13, 2015 | No Comments In association with BBC Stargazing Live 2015 and the Northern Ireland Amateur Astronomical Society (NIAAS) Armagh Planetarium is opening its doors for a free open evening on Tuesday 24th of [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... 2 Comments At the planetarium it is often stated that every time you look into the sky you are doing astronomy, it has become a slight mantra that we chant to encourage [ ] . ... Newer Entries . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2008 March 28 . Across the Universe . Credit: NASA Swift Team , Stefan Immler ( GSFC ) et al. ... But staring toward the northern constellation Bootes on March 19th, even without binoculars or telescope you still could have witnessed a faint, brief, flash of light from a gamma-ray burst . ... About APOD | ...

... Unexpected Comet Pojmanski Now Visible . ... Comets bright enough to be visible to the unaided eye appear only every few years. Right now, however, a new comet has brightened unexpectedly and is visible as a faint streak to the unaided northern observer in the eastern morning sky just before sunrise. ... The Galaxy Within Centaurus A . ... The bright star.. ... A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 5, 1996 . COBE Dipole: Speeding Through the Universe . Credit: NASA , COBE , DMR , Four-Year Sky Map . ... The Milky Way Galaxy orbits in the Local Group . ... The map indicates that the Local Group moves at about 600 kilometers per second relative to this primordial radiation . ... About APOD | ...

... Asteroids are awkward to photograph. Can you imagine how hard it is to spot one of these tiny, dark lumps of rock against the blackness of our night sky? ... Like Earth, asteroids move around the Sun. ... But astronomers don t give up easily, and asteroids are something they really want to study. ... The asteroid in this photograph is called Itokawa. It became famous in 2005 when a Japanese spacecraft called Hayabusa visited it and took some photographs including this one! ...

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An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time . THE CHANGING UNIVERSE: EVOLUTION HAPPENS! . b) Changes in Stars . One of the great discoveries of modern science is that stars (like people) live only a measurable life-time and then die. Although the lives of the stars are enormously longer than the span of a human life, we can learn about the life story of the stars by studying them at many different stages in their life cycle, from birth to death. ...

The Big Bang was not an explosion from a single point, with a center and an edge. ... Each dot represents a "galaxy". Two of the galaxies have a ring of red photons moving out from them. Most of the photons are cosmic microwave background photons that were present since the Big Bang but which have been traveling freely only since 0.0003 Gyr after the Big Bang. ... However, all parts of the Universe started with CMBR photons, not just the two green galaxies. ... FAQ | ...

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... NOTE TO EDITORS: GALAXY FLY-THROUGH AVAILABLE ONLINE . HUGE GALAXY STRING CHALLENGES SPACE THEORY . An enormous string of galaxies 300 million light-years long has been discovered in the remote Universe, challenging existing theories about how the Universe evolved. ... ANU astronomer Dr Paul Francis, who coordinated the international research team, said the galaxy string lay 10,800 million light-years away. ... The research was funded by NASA and the Australian National University. ...

... The expansion is measured as a number called the Hubble Constant . ... Our value is about 20% lower than the one got with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994," said Dr Jim Lovell, leader of the team that made the measurement. The Hubble Constant is named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who in the 1920s found that other galaxies were moving away from ours. ... The Hubble Constant links the galaxy's distance with its speed." ... A short run-down on the Hubble Constant: . ...

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