Prof. Mark Bailey, Danny Kennedy MLA, Jim Nicholson MEP Ulster Unionist party MEP Jim Nicholson and MLA Danny Kennedy visited the Armagh Observatory on Friday 17th April 2009. ... The director of the Observatory, Professor Mark Bailey, said "The Armagh Observatory is a unique institution, not just the oldest scientific institution in Northern Ireland but a world-leading astronomical institution in its own right." ... The Observatory's programme of Science in the Community has a number of pillars. ...

... Many scientific institutions maintain bibliographies of articles published by their scientists and monitor references made to these publications; these figures are often used to evaluate the effectiveness of the institution. ... a) Identification of papers that are based, at least partly, on new data Publications based on observations can be subdivided into two groups: those presenting new, previously unreported data, and those that make use of already published data. ... Published by . ...

A team using CSIRO 's Parkes radio telescope has just found the thousandth pulsar known to science. ... This is thanks to the power of a new instrument on the telescope, the multibeam system , which has slashed the time it takes to scan the sky," said co-leader of the pulsar team, CSIRO's Dr Dick Manchester . ... There are many different types of pulsar, and we have only a few examples of some types," said Dr Manchester. ... E-mail: rmanches@atnf.csiro.au . ... e-mail: hsim@atnf.csiro.au . ...

... 20 th -23 rd April 2015 . ... In 2015 the 8th busy week takes place in Firenze, in Galileo GalileiтАЩs villa тАЬil GioielloтАЭ, located in the gorgeous hills in the southern side of the city. ... is pleased to host the 8th CALIFA Busy Week . in Firenze, at Galileo GalileiтАЩs Villa тАЬil GioielloтАЭ . After the second public data release on the 1st October 2014 ( DR2 , Garc†нa-Benito et al. 2014 ) and with more than 500 galaxies observed to-date, CALIFA has entered its maturity. ...

... The eleven years cycle of Sun's activity is approaching its maximum! From August 24th to 29th a team of astronomers, engineers and astro-photographers will travel to southern Greenland to observe the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), a phenomenon expected to be particularly spectacular during this period. ... Auroras . The wonderful celestial spectacle of the aurora occurs when very energetic particles from the Sun reach the Earth's atmosphere via the solar wind. ... About GLORIA . ...