astronomy

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (originally titled Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus) is often considered to be the first science fiction novel and is a landmark of gothic fiction. First published anonymously in 1818 when Mary Shelley was…

Communication with Earth, Sol 7, from Crew 173 on the Mars Desert Research Station, Utah. The Power of Mars It's 1977 and I’m 8 years old. We have just moved to a small town in Ireland called Carlow. It's summertime so we have no…

Tycho Brahe was born as Tyge Brahe in 1546, though he would adopt the Latinized form of his first name when he was fifteen. His parents were Danish nobles, with his father, Otte Brahe, one of the close advisors of the King of Denmark. Tycho…

The announcement this week of finding running water on the Martian surface was big news, your Facebook and Twitter feeds were filled with the revelation and people rushed to find the closet Airbnb next to the picturesque rivers of the Red…

David Moore, Astronomy Ireland This episode of the podcast has me sitting silently agog more than it has me asking questions but that's a testament to David Moore's astronomical quantities of knowledge on the subject (of astronomy).…

In pubs across the country, last Monday, Pint of Science kicked off a three-day extravaganza of fun, interesting and insightful lectures, about all things science. Dublin, Galway and Limerick were host to some fantastically named lectures…

On Friday morning Ireland will be consumed by darkness. A zombie will wander through the streets yearning for sustenance confused by the unnatural dark skies. Well, at least I feel like a zombie at 8am in dire need of caffeine and breakfast…

Two giant stars are in the process of forming one supermassive star About 13,000 light years from where you are currently sitting, you can find the Giraffe constellation. For years, one of the brightest objects there was believed…

Origins In 1799 a French engineer stumbled upon what was to be one of the greatest archaeological finds in all of human history. On an expedition to Egypt with the purpose of undermining competitors' trade interests to the East, an…