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![While HSTs successor is named after the architect of the revolutionary Apollo Moon missions, an obvious tribute to the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations second administrator, James E. Webb, the […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/image-of-NASA_JWST-115x115.jpg "JWST: A Giant Cyclops to Reveal the Depths of Space")
![On 15 June 2014 look south about 10.30pm. The sky will be far from dark, but with a little effort you ought to spy the triangle topped by the star […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/image-of-hercules-and-surroundings-115x115.png "Stargazing in June")
![Once we believed we lived in an absolutely typical planetary system. Around the Sun, small rocky planets huddle close in taking months or years to complete an orbit while huge […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/image-of-kepler-10c-115x115.jpg "Kepler-10c: the First Mega-Earth")
![Is it possible that ancient cultures 7000 years ago knew how to create flying machines to traverse the sky and beyond using a technology that NASA engineers are still trying […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/image-of-ion_head-115x115.jpg "Was NASA Technology Predicted in Ancient Indian Writings?")
![Although the concept of something being there but being hidden from our eyes under the cover of darkness is one that has disturbed usually one or other of us once […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Image-looking_towardsPolaris-115x115.jpg "JWST: Finding Space for Hubble’s Successor")
![Technology in this day and age has progressed leaps and bounds over the years and things that may have once been out of reach of the normal everyday person have […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/storm-at-3.30-on-the-Sat-to-the-right-115x115.jpg "Hi Pi")
![Encouraging school children to enter the world of aerospace, engineeringand science This is the motto for the Aerospace Youth Rocketry Challenge which takes place across the globe. The prize, if […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/DSC_0311-115x115.jpg "St Patrick’s Academy Rockets Ahead")
![Looking south from Northern Ireland after sunset in the middle of May and you will see there is a parade of planets dominating the sky. On 15 May 2014 […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/south1030-115x115.png "Stargazing in May")
![It is almost three years since NASAs Space Shuttle program flew its last mission in July 2011, after providing a mode of transport into space for various crews over a […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/image-of-dream-Chaser-spacecraft-115x115.jpg "Dreamchaser: Everything You Need to Know About the Mini-Shuttle")
![We could call April The month of the Hairy Beasts as well encounter more than a few as we leapfrog across the constellations over the next few weeks! And will […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/image-of_Voorwerp-115x115.jpg "April Night Sky Wonders")
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Hello, Im Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the Planetariums 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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