The Future of Planet Hunting: How the Next Generation of Exoplanet Surveys Will Find Us a New Earth 563 planets around other stars are known to exist. Only a tiny percentage of our galaxy has been searched for new planets, so it is likely that the Milky Way contains millions of exosolar ...
Final shuttle launch and brain training games are among the topics in the latest science podcast
Students in Northern Ireland are seeing stars this summer with a new series of astronomy lectures at Queen’s University Belfast. “Killer Asteroids”, the second of the Michael West Public Lectures in Astronomy, will be given on Wednesday 3 August by Dr Robert Jedicke from the University of Hawaii. Dr Jedicke ...
Check out the latest science interviews in the new Scibernia podcast
Episode 8 now online of Scibernia free science podcast
First Fridays at the Castle, 1 July: Celebrating the Space Shuttle Watch this space as CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory marks NASA’s final shuttle flight when Atlantis launches from the Kennedy Space Centre on 8 July 2011. Marking the end of an era with us at First Fridays at the Castle will ...
The Sun is the ultimate life giver for Earth. Without its heat and light, life would simply not survive. The nuclear furnace also has unusual magnetic fields on its surface, which create huge sunspots bigger than Earth itself. Sunspots can unleash vast explosions of energy and charged particles into space. ...
School students at Blackrock Castle Observatory lin up with astronomers in the US
Great astronomy resources on the Universe Awareness for Young Children website
Speakers and visitors to this month’s open night at CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory will probe the connections between life and science through a series of themed events. Saturn viewings will take place from 9pm and all activities are free. First Fridays at the Castle is a monthly event at CIT ...
