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Newgrange to be X-rayed to determine source of granite The base of the 5,000- year-old Neolithic monument at Newgrange, Co Meath, is to be X-rayed by a researcher in a bid to determine the origin of its granite boulders. Dr Ian G Meighan of the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, who holds an honora...

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The first stone circle for more than a century has been discovered on Dartmoor. The set - at least 4,000 years old - is the highest circle in southern England and the second-largest on Dartmoor. Thirty-four metres in diameter and at 525 metres on the northern part of the moor near Sittaford Tor, the cir...

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10 inch Grubb Refractor July 28th marks the 125th anniversary of the erection of the 10-inch Grubb refracting telescope at the Armagh Observatory. The refractor was commissioned from Howard Grubb of Dublin. Following some adjustments to the telescope, including the addition of a rack and pinion...

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Two standing stones at Nether Corskie near Waterton of Echt (Dunecht), are all that remains of a stone circle which formerly stood on the site. The western stone has two cup marks on it on the south and west faces. The former also bears two faintly incised early Christian (before AD 800) symbols - a mirr...

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Dun Echt Observatory flourished for almost twenty years but, in 1888, on learning that Scotland's modest Royal Observatory, Calton Hill, in the centre of Edinburgh was under threat of closure James Lindsay, now 26th Earl of Crawford, saved the day by magnanimously donating the entire contents of...

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Massive stone circles found in desert Stone circles in the Gobi desert, one km north of Flaming Mountains, in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. About 200 stone circles of varying sizes and styles have been found in a 20,000-square-meter area. Experts speculate the circles were...

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Twinkle telescope to check out exoplanet climate There are over 1800 known exoplanets, and both NASA and the European Space Agency plan to launch dedicated planet hunters in 2017 to find more. Read more

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New dark matter experiments prepare to hunt the unknown This month, three new experiments take significant steps in the hunt for dark matter, the elusive substance that appears to make up more than a quarter of the universe, but interacts very rarely with the matter that makes up our world. The exper...

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Title: A palace for astronomy in Buenos Aires Authors: Alejandro Gangui In no other epoch of Western history like in the Middle Ages, cosmology was so key an element of culture and, one way or another, the motion of the heavens ended up impregnating the literature of that time. Among the most notewort...

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A new forecast centre dedicated to space weather is due to officially open in Exeter later. The Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre is designed to protect the UK's economy and infrastructure from severe events caused by space weather. Read more

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A Scottish astronomer and scientist James Gregory is thought to have laid the first meridian line, arguably making St Andrews "the place where time began". James Gregory laid the line across his lab in South Street in 1673, nearly 200 years before the Greenwich meridian was established...

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Henge Discovered in England A Neolithic ditch which became a huge funerary monument when it was enlarged with an outer ring during the Bronze Age has been found on housing development grounds in Kent Archaeologists suspect a "sacred way" could have led to a henge 6,000 years ago at Iwade M...

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Archaeologist try to unlock secrets of Pictish find Archaeologists have released details on what they have described as the most important Pictish stone find to have been made in Moray in decades. Weighing more than a ton and stretching to 1.7m, the Dandaleith Stone dates from the 6th to 8th Centuri...

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Road workers smash 1,000-year-old monument on Engeløya island Read more

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On July 15 2012, the groundbreaking ceremony took place at Banjiegou for the Qitai Radio Telescope Read more

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	Newgrange (Preview) Newgrange to be X-rayed to determine source of granite The base of the 5,000- year-old Neolithic monument at Newgrange, Co Meath, is to be X-rayed by a researcher in a bid to determine the origin of its granite boulders. Dr Ian G Meighan of the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, who holds an honora...	Blobrana	0	May 21 14:59 2015 by Blobrana
	Sittaford Tor circle (Preview) The first stone circle for more than a century has been discovered on Dartmoor. The set - at least 4,000 years old - is the highest circle in southern England and the second-largest on Dartmoor. Thirty-four metres in diameter and at 525 metres on the northern part of the moor near Sittaford Tor, the cir...	Blobrana	0	May 11 14:12 2015 by Blobrana
	Armagh Observatory (Preview) 10 inch Grubb Refractor July 28th marks the 125th anniversary of the erection of the 10-inch Grubb refracting telescope at the Armagh Observatory. The refractor was commissioned from Howard Grubb of Dublin. Following some adjustments to the telescope, including the addition of a rack and pinion...	Blobrana	2	May 7 12:59 2015 by Blobrana
	Dunecht stonecircle (Preview) Two standing stones at Nether Corskie near Waterton of Echt (Dunecht), are all that remains of a stone circle which formerly stood on the site. The western stone has two cup marks on it on the south and west faces. The former also bears two faintly incised early Christian (before AD 800) symbols - a mirr...	Blobrana	0	Apr 4 11:23 2015 by Blobrana
	Dun Echt Observatory Observatory (Preview) Dun Echt Observatory flourished for almost twenty years but, in 1888, on learning that Scotland's modest Royal Observatory, Calton Hill, in the centre of Edinburgh was under threat of closure James Lindsay, now 26th Earl of Crawford, saved the day by magnanimously donating the entire contents of...	Blobrana	6	Apr 4 11:20 2015 by Blobrana
	Gobi desert stone circles (Preview) Massive stone circles found in desert Stone circles in the Gobi desert, one km north of Flaming Mountains, in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. About 200 stone circles of varying sizes and styles have been found in a 20,000-square-meter area. Experts speculate the circles were...	Blobrana	0	Mar 27 16:39 2015 by Blobrana
	Twinkle telescope (Preview) Twinkle telescope to check out exoplanet climate There are over 1800 known exoplanets, and both NASA and the European Space Agency plan to launch dedicated planet hunters in 2017 to find more. Read more	Blobrana	0	Jan 29 09:19 2015 by Blobrana
	SNOLAB (Preview) New dark matter experiments prepare to hunt the unknown This month, three new experiments take significant steps in the hunt for dark matter, the elusive substance that appears to make up more than a quarter of the universe, but interacts very rarely with the matter that makes up our world. The exper...	Blobrana	0	Nov 13 23:06 2014 by Blobrana
	Barolo Palace (Preview) Title: A palace for astronomy in Buenos Aires Authors: Alejandro Gangui In no other epoch of Western history like in the Middle Ages, cosmology was so key an element of culture and, one way or another, the motion of the heavens ended up impregnating the literature of that time. Among the most notewort...	Blobrana	1	Oct 27 08:19 2014 by Blobrana
	Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre (Preview) A new forecast centre dedicated to space weather is due to officially open in Exeter later. The Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre is designed to protect the UK's economy and infrastructure from severe events caused by space weather. Read more	Blobrana	1	Oct 8 22:40 2014 by Blobrana
	St Andrews Meridian (Preview) A Scottish astronomer and scientist James Gregory is thought to have laid the first meridian line, arguably making St Andrews "the place where time began". James Gregory laid the line across his lab in South Street in 1673, nearly 200 years before the Greenwich meridian was established...	Blobrana	0	Oct 3 15:26 2014 by Blobrana
	Iwade Meadow henge (Preview) Henge Discovered in England A Neolithic ditch which became a huge funerary monument when it was enlarged with an outer ring during the Bronze Age has been found on housing development grounds in Kent Archaeologists suspect a "sacred way" could have led to a henge 6,000 years ago at Iwade M...	Blobrana	0	Aug 14 08:16 2014 by Blobrana
	Dandaleith Stone (Preview) Archaeologist try to unlock secrets of Pictish find Archaeologists have released details on what they have described as the most important Pictish stone find to have been made in Moray in decades. Weighing more than a ton and stretching to 1.7m, the Dandaleith Stone dates from the 6th to 8th Centuri...	Blobrana	0	Aug 8 14:10 2014 by Blobrana
	Engeløya island stone (Preview) Road workers smash 1,000-year-old monument on Engeløya island Read more	Blobrana	0	Jul 24 21:12 2014 by Blobrana
	Qitai Radio Telescope (Preview) On July 15 2012, the groundbreaking ceremony took place at Banjiegou for the Qitai Radio Telescope Read more	Blobrana	0	Jul 14 20:58 2014 by Blobrana
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