As part of the celebrations for the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) and in conjunction with the Europa stamp collection, An Post is launching two stamps with world-famous astronomical images of Crab Nebula and a Brown Dwarf. Get more information about the stamps at www.irishstamps.ie.
Congratulations to Dave Grennan, who has discovered his second asteroid in the space of just a few months.
Students across Ireland are invited to take part in a digital photo competition about astronomical subjects, called “Eye on the Sky” to mark the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
The Astronomy Picture of the Day offers top-class images of the cosmos each day on its NASA-hosted website.
After waiting 160 years for an asteroid to be discovered from Ireland, two have been discovered just a fortnight apart.
Astronomer Dave McDonald has discovered an asteroid, using a telescope in his back garden in Celbridge, Co Kildare.
A researcher at Queen’s University Belfast has won the Young Astronomer Award 2008 from the Astronomical Society of Japan.
