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Everything You Need to Know About the Milky Way
Posted on September 14, 2012 | 13 Comments, -
Flying Saucers From NASA
Posted on September 10, 2012 | No CommentsSpacecraft with a lenticular design (that is, shaped like a biconvex lens) were actively studied by NASA and US industry in the late 1950s and early тАШ60s. A craft of […] -
The Moon in the Daytime
Posted on September 7, 2012 | 7 CommentsI was visiting the Tall Ships event in Dublin recently when I noticed something strange in the light blue daytime sky!€а Overlooking the River Liffey I could see something that […] -
Karl Jansky: The Father of Radio Astronomy
Posted on August 29, 2012 | 3 CommentsRadio astronomy is the study of the radio frequencies emitted from stars, galaxies and other celestial objects. Radio waves are produced naturally from lightning and astronomical objects, or are produced […] -
Neil Armstrong R.I.P.
Posted on August 25, 2012 | 4 CommentsNeil Armstrong was born in 1930 in Ohio and died in 2012 in Ohio. Between those two dates he became immortal on the Moon. Think about it, as long as […] -
A Piece of Armagh on the Moon: Image of the Month
Posted on August 23, 2012 | 2 CommentsOnce, about four billion years ago, an asteroid about a kilometre and a half across fell on our Moon.It fell unwitnessed by the brooding, lifeless Earth which loomed large in […] -
Finding Your Way in the Milky Way
Posted on August 21, 2012 | 2 CommentsOur galaxy, the Milky Way, is vaster than we puny humans can imagine.A huge (100 000 light years across) spiral of stars and nebulae embedded in the tenuous interstellar medium […]

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![The Moon in the Daytime I was visiting the Tall Ships event in Dublin recently when I noticed something strange in the light blue daytime sky!€а Overlooking the River Liffey I could see something that […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Moon-Daytime-115x115.jpg)
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![Karl Jansky: The Father of Radio Astronomy Radio astronomy is the study of the radio frequencies emitted from stars, galaxies and other celestial objects. Radio waves are produced naturally from lightning and astronomical objects, or are produced […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Image-of-Karl_Jansky_radio_telescope-115x115.jpg)
![Neil Armstrong R.I.P. Neil Armstrong was born in 1930 in Ohio and died in 2012 in Ohio. Between those two dates he became immortal on the Moon. Think about it, as long as […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/image-of-Armstrong-in-Gemini-spacesuit-115x115.jpg)
![A Piece of Armagh on the Moon: Image of the Month Once, about four billion years ago, an asteroid about a kilometre and a half across fell on our Moon.It fell unwitnessed by the brooding, lifeless Earth which loomed large in […]](http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/image-of-lindsay-crater-115x115.png)
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