Celestial Cathedral

Visitors can use interactive displays to learn about the cosmos and watch the latest space news in real time. The Armagh Celestial Cathedral is a beautiful gallery of illuminated deep space images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope framed in dramatic gothic arches.

Travel to the International Space Station, outwards to Mars in our 3D stereo room and experience our immersive gallery which can project stereoscopic animations of Solar System exploration.

Cosmic Balloons (During July & August 2010)

For younger visitors, why not celebrate the Space age by making your own balloon astronaut? Or you can recreate favourite constellations like Cygnus or Cetus with you own balloon model.  In this fun craft activity visitors to Armagh Planetarium can make and decorate their own balloon model. We supply the raw materials, balloons, stickers and pens, and show you how to get modelling! What you can create is as unlimited as space itself! It is a lot of fun and you get to take your finished model home with you.

	Balloon Astronauts! (made by a local playgroup)

Largest Meteorite in Ireland

Just acquired by the Planetarium is a 140kg nickel iron meteorite.  This is the biggest meteorite on public display in Ireland and visitors are encouraged to touch it.  At an amazing 4.5 billion years old, this is the oldest thing you'll ever touch.  Meteorites like this are the leftovers of the Solar System; the stuff that planets are made from.

	Director Tom Mason with Ireland's largest meteorite