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![Maybe you have seen one of the alarming videos or emails circulating around the internet claiming that the End is Nigh. The claim is that an enormous dinosaur-killer of an […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/image-of-toutatis-115x115.jpg "The Truth About the “September 2015 Asteroid Impact”")
![July is here and that means it is officially the summer holidays. School is out and we are all planning our holidays either abroad or at home. Whether you leave […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/The-Summer-Triangle-160715-at-1200am-SE-115x115.png "The July Night Sky")
![The space programmes of the USA and USSR began in a spirit of bitter Cold War rivalry but by the early 1970s internation tensions had eased a little into a […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/260346main_astp_hatch_full_full-115x115.jpg "Shaking Hands in Orbit: the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project")
![Recently the idea of people living on Mars has been the talk of the astronomy circle and has captured the minds of many. Once posed with this possibility, the natural […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Image-of-moon-settlement-115x115.jpg "Living on the Moon")
![Some of us who have vivid memories of famous spacecraft and rockets that òÀØhad their dayòÀÙ in the consciousness of the world may wonder what prominent space agencies are working […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/image-of-BOEING_CST-100-at_ISS-115x115.jpg "CST-100: Boeing’s New Spacecraft")
![Our Solar System is vast. We on Earth cruise around the Sun in an orbit with a radius of about 150 million km (93 million miles), but the most distant […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/image-of-NewHorizons_at_Jupiter-115x115.jpg "How Did New Horizons Get to Pluto so Quickly?")
![It is already one of the biggest films to hit cinemas this year, and if you havenòÀÙt seen Avengers: Age of Ultron yet, then I urge you to go and […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/image-of-superheroes-115x115.jpg "The Space Science behind Avengers: Age of Ultron")
![My relationship with Tom Mason nearly got off to a rocky start when I thought I was going to have to throw him out of his own planetarium! Once […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/image-of-tom-mason-at-planetarium-115x115.jpg "Tom Mason: A Fond Farewell from Armagh Planetarium")
![June is finally upon us, and the summer is officially in full swing. The nights may be brighter for longer, but that doesnòÀÙt mean that there isnòÀÙt some brilliant stargazing […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/eso1430a-115x115.jpg "The June Night Sky")
![When was the last time you ever stopped to have a good think about the giant natural satellite that orbits our planet? The Moon is something that has fascinated us […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/image-of-Apollo-14-eva-115x115.jpg "Is the Moon Hollow?")
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Hello, IòÀÙm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumòÀÙs 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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