Last night’s lunar eclipse was all over over social media feeds this morning. The eclipse coincided with the moon at perigee – its closest distance from earth, making it appear up to 14% larger in diameter. The coincidence of supermoon (perigee) and blood-red eclipse last occurred in 1982, making last night’s occurrence a spectacular event, with unusually clear […]
To mark National Science Week, Astronomy Ireland is setting up some of the most powerful telescopes in the country to show the Moon closer than most people will ever see it in their lives. Everyone in Ireland is invited to the event at Astronomy Ireland’s Headquarters in Dublin on Thursday November 6th at 7pm. The MoonWatch […]
The last ‘SuperMoon’ of 2014 is taking place right now. The best nights to see it are Sept 7th, 8th and 9th, with the Moon technically being closest to Ireland in the small hours of Monday Sept. 8th. Astronomy Ireland is inviting people to send in their photographs of this ‘extra-large’ Moon, and their comments and […]
I love this. It’s the kind of thing scientists talk about on their lunch break. Then they spend the rest of the afternoon working it out![youtube]http://youtu.be/w8I25H3bnNw[/youtube] OK – so this ‘up-close moon-sized mirror’ thing is cool (if a little scary), but I’d still really like to know what kind of satellite actually would create a disco-ball […]
The Juno spacecraft is on a mission to Jupiter and will arrive in 2016. Meanwhile, it’s building up speed to get there, and that involved a fly-by of Earth last month, using the gravity of its home planet to give it a push along the way. As it passed, its cameras captured pictures of the […]
