The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is due for launch in 2018 and DIAS convened the team working on one of its major instruments MIRI in Dublin (13th to 15th September) to finalize their plans for using the… Read More

Congratulations to Anton Feeney-Johansson on being awarded the Earnshaw medal for best undergraduate physics thesis in Ireland for 2017. Anton carried out his undergraduate project at the school of Cosmic Physics in DIAS and was mentored by Irish… Read More

Dunsink Observatory is joining in the celebrations of Culture Night on Friday 22nd September 2017. Address : Dunsink Lane,     Castleknock,  D15 (location) Phone   : 087- 6294966 The Observatory will be open from 7:00pm to 11:00pm and during… Read More

Workshop to discuss participation in the Cherenkov Telescope Array project in Ireland. Funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations scheme Venue: DIAS, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4 Date: Monday August 28, 2017, 10am – 5pm (approx.) The… Read More

Professor Christian Spiering was awarded the 2017 O’Ceallaigh medal at the opening of the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference in Busan, Korea, on Thursday 13th July.  The medal was  presented by Professor Luke Drury, Director of the School… Read More

An international team of astronomers have used ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array), the world’s largest radio telescope, to make the most detailed image of the surface of a star (other than our Sun) that has ever been created… Read More

In 2016 a number of new Astronomy and Astrophysics research groups were set up in the ROI to study massive stars, their evolution, and explosion. Following on from this a series of meetings have been proposed linking these… Read More