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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Image of the Month Archive
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The Oldest Light in the Universe: Image of the Month
Posted on March 25, 2013 | 1 Comment“How could the Universe we see around us be created by an explosion?” This is a question often asked by those puzzled by the scientific consensus, the standard model of... -
Stellar Nursery NGC 6357: Image of the Month
Posted on February 21, 2013 | No CommentsA new image from the European southern Observatory’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) telescope reveals the glowing clouds of gas and filaments of dust surrounding hot young... -
Images of the Month: The Beauty of Pinhole Photography
Posted on January 29, 2013 | No CommentsOn the weekend of the 14and 15 of July 2012 we held a pinhole photography event. This was led by the world renowned pinhole photographer Justin Quinnell. Justin has been... -
Up Goer Five: Image of the Month
Posted on November 26, 2012 | No CommentsNASA’s Saturn 5 is still the most amazing rocket ever built. The reign of Saturn was both short and shockingly long ago: the first launched the unmanned Apollo 4 45... -
A Fireball in the Night: Image of the Month
Posted on September 24, 2012 | 1 CommentAn intruder from beyond Earth’s atmosphere can be seen in this image of the 21 September fireball taken by amateur astronomer Colin Campbell from his garden in Lisburn. Here... -
A Piece of Armagh on the Moon: Image of the Month
Posted on August 23, 2012 | No 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... -
Image of the Month: On Fire Off Orion
Posted on May 11, 2012 | No CommentsThis image of the reflection nebula Messier 78 (NGC 2068) includes the soft glow of submillimetre-wavelength (infra red) radiation from clouds of interstellar dust grains running through the nebula.Dense clouds... -
Image of the Month: The Tarantula Nebula
Posted on April 20, 2012 | No CommentsOur Image of the Month was released to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and is a striking panoramic look at a stellar nursery which is... -
Image of the Month: Rockets Then and Now
Posted on March 9, 2012 | No CommentsOnce upon a time rockets were exciting symbols of a glorious and exciting future when everyone would get their chance to have a holiday on the Moon. Well the future... -
A Rolling Stone on the Moon: Image of the Month
Posted on February 16, 2012 | 2 CommentsOnce, in complete silence, a large boulder rolled down a slope on the central peak of the Moon’s Schiller crater. This rock is about 9m (30ft) across, meaning that it...