Welcome to Astronotes
Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. We hope you will come here to learn what is hot and exciting, profound or even weird from worlds beyond ours . So that's the introduction out of the way, now on with the Universe!
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![The discovery of new planets beyond our Solar System has further expanded on what we thought we knew about what is out there. These distant extrasolar planets or exoplanets have […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/image-of-Kepler-62f-115x115.jpg "Exoplanets Glossary")
Exoplanets Glossary
Posted on September 27, 2013 | 5 CommentsThe discovery of new planets beyond our Solar System has further expanded on what we thought we knew about what is out there. These distant extrasolar planets or exoplanets have […] -
![NASAтАЩs amazing Kepler planet-searching spacecraft has made a significant new discovery. Planet Kepler-10b is an inhospitable world but it is one of the smallest confirmed exoplanets yet found and may […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Image-of-Kepler10b-115x115.jpg "Kepler-10b: world of lava oceans?")
Kepler-10b: world of lava oceans?
Posted on January 11, 2011 | 1 CommentNASAтАЩs amazing Kepler planet-searching spacecraft has made a significant new discovery. Planet Kepler-10b is an inhospitable world but it is one of the smallest confirmed exoplanets yet found and may […] -
![Could HIP 13044 b be the strangest exoplanet yet found? We are getting used to the discoveries of bizarre exoplanets but newly-discovered world HIP 13044 b not only survived the […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/image-of-HIP-13044-b-115x115.jpg "ESO finds weird doomed planet from another galaxy")
ESO finds weird doomed planet from another galaxy
Posted on November 19, 2010 | 1 CommentCould HIP 13044 b be the strangest exoplanet yet found? We are getting used to the discoveries of bizarre exoplanets but newly-discovered world HIP 13044 b not only survived the […] -
![About 490 light years from our planet in the constellation of Monoceros lies a G type star designated COROT-7. A little smaller and dimmer than our Sun, this star is […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Corot-7b-115x115.jpg "COROT-7b: Exoplanet with a sky made of stone")
COROT-7b: Exoplanet with a sky made of stone
Posted on September 22, 2010 | 1 CommentAbout 490 light years from our planet in the constellation of Monoceros lies a G type star designated COROT-7. A little smaller and dimmer than our Sun, this star is […] -
![Some 150 light years from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus lies the star HD 209458 and its planetary system. The star is almost a clone of our own Sun, […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/cometplanet1-115x115.jpg "Exoplanet HD 209458b: A planet that thinks it’s a comet")
Exoplanet HD 209458b: A planet that thinks it’s a comet
Posted on September 20, 2010 | No CommentsSome 150 light years from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus lies the star HD 209458 and its planetary system. The star is almost a clone of our own Sun, […]