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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exoplanets Archive
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![Kepler-11 is an amazing, newly-discovered system of exoplanets. About 2000 light years from Earth, six planets orbit a star like our Sun. Each planet is bigger and more massive than […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Image-of-Kepler-11-115x115.jpg "Kepler-11: a strange and crowded planetary system")
Kepler-11: a strange and crowded planetary system
Posted on February 3, 2011 | No CommentsKepler-11 is an amazing, newly-discovered system of exoplanets. About 2000 light years from Earth, six planets orbit a star like our Sun. Each planet is bigger and more massive than […] -
![Don Pollacco, a research astronomer at Queens University Belfast, came to Armagh Planetarium to give a fascinating talk on exoplanets in January 2011. Afterwards Dr Pollaco kindly chatted to me […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/image-of-kepler-10c-115x115.jpg "“An unnatural interest in astronomy”")
“An unnatural interest in astronomy”
Posted on January 21, 2011 | No CommentsDon Pollacco, a research astronomer at Queens University Belfast, came to Armagh Planetarium to give a fascinating talk on exoplanets in January 2011. Afterwards Dr Pollaco kindly chatted to me […] -
![The extra-solar planet HAT-P-1b has baffled astronomers since it was discovered in 2006. The planet is puffed up much larger than theory predicts. HAT-P-1 has a volume nearly twice than […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Image-of-HAT-P-1B-115x115.jpg "Exoplanet HAT-P-1b: weird, warm and fuzzy")
Exoplanet HAT-P-1b: weird, warm and fuzzy
Posted on November 29, 2010 | No CommentsThe extra-solar planet HAT-P-1b has baffled astronomers since it was discovered in 2006. The planet is puffed up much larger than theory predicts. HAT-P-1 has a volume nearly twice than […] -
![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, […]