Welcome to Astronotes
Hello, I’m Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the Planetarium’s 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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extraterrestrial life Archive
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Is this an Extraterrestrial Structure on the Moon?
Posted on February 23, 2012 | 8 CommentsNASA has photographed an alien building on the surface of the Moon! Hearing news like this certainly makes one sit up and pay attention, but is it is correct? I... -
Have we found an alien Earth?
Posted on September 15, 2011 | 2 CommentsA team of astronomers based at the European Southern Observatory have announced the discovery of more than 50 new exoplanets orbiting nearby stars. This is the largest number of such... -
The Truth about Betty Hill’s UFO Star Map
Posted on August 19, 2011 | 11 CommentsOn a dark September night in 1961, Barney and Betty Hill had a frightening experience in the mountains of New Hampshire. Later they came to believe that they had been... -
The Truth about Life on Mars (Part 3)
Posted on August 11, 2011 | No Comments“Is there life on Mars?” More than fifty years into the Space Age and there still is no definitive answer. Completing our series of posts on this mystery, we look... -
Mars: Summer’s Salty Tears?
Posted on August 5, 2011 | No CommentsCould water be streaming down Martian mountainsides? This startling vision may be a reality according to recent results from NASA’s MRO spacecraft. Here is the latest on the waters of... -
Revealed: 5 secret solutions to the UFO mystery
Posted on March 23, 2011 | 4 Comments“I was looking into the sky and I’ve seen something strange …what was it?” Around the world observatories, planetariums and science museums, regularly encounter questions like this. Most often these... -
What if we picked up a signal from outer space?
Posted on March 21, 2011 | 2 Comments“The Day the Earth Stood Still”, “Contact”, “2001: A Space Odyssey” and many other movies have depicted the first contact between humans and aliens. Do scientists really listen for messages... -
The Truth about Life on Mars (part 2)
Posted on March 18, 2011 | 2 CommentsScientists had seriously considered the possibility of plant or even animal life on the surface of Mars for more than a century. However negative results from NASA’s Viking spacecraft in... -
The Truth about Life on Mars (Part 1)
Posted on March 11, 2011 | No Comments“Is there life on Mars?” This must be one of the most-asked questions in astronomy. In this article I am going to look at the historical background to this question.... -
“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...