Articles Tagged ‘Astronomy’

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Dara Ó Briain on science and video games

Dara Ó Briain recently helped to launch the Dublin City of Science 2012 celebrations. Read some of his insights on science here

Spacecraft engineer gives talk about robot explorers

Talk will look at the technology used on the Cassini mission

Irish researchers launch mobile site for Sun-gazers

TCD researchers launch mobile site to monitor the Sun

First Fridays at the Castle: The Star of Bethlehem

CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory’s First Fridays at the Castle is an open night held on the first Friday of every month with activities for visitors of all ages. Friday 2 December’s event is in association with the Cork Astronomy Club.

Science Week 2011 events

A preview of some of the events taking place for Science Week 2011

Scienctist to discuss CERN experiment and theory of relativity

Talk will explore how the experiment affects the fundamental rules of physics

Learn about the lives of stars

A lecture on stellar evolution from one of Ireland’s top physicists, Dr Gareth Murphy

Public talks on Mars mission

Media rich events about “Mars Science Laboratory – In Search of Origins”

Public Lecture: The Sounds of the Cosmos

Science author and BBC Sky at Night regular Dr Lewis Dartnell will give a lecture in Dublin to show how the Sun, stars, and planets generate fascinating and haunting sounds that travel to Earth over radio waves. While sound does not travel in space, radio waves do, and by using ...

European astronomers to answer children’s questions

Space Scoop, which provides astronomy news for children, will release daily highlights from a major space science meeting next week. The 2011 meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and Division for Planetary Science will be held in Nantes, France, from 2-8 October 2011. EU-Universe Awareness (EU-UNAWE) is asking primary ...

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