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We are pleased to announce many Postgraduate Research Opportunities at the CfA in 2009. Please see the types of postgraduate projects currently being offered by our staff in Astronomy Research and Physics Research.

Astronomy Picture of the Day Orion in Gas, Dust, and Stars The constellation of Orion holds much more than three stars in a row. A deep exposure shows everything from dark nebula to star clusters, all embedded in an extended patch of gaseous wisps in the greater Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. The brightest three stars on the far left are indeed the famous...

Recent News:

• 23 January 2012: Centre for Astronomy Open Nights
  NUI Galway's Centre of Astronomy will continue its programme of open evenings in the new year at its Imbusch Observatory in Dangan.
• 28 November 2011: CfA participated in Galway Science & Technology Festival 2011
  '3-D tour of the Universe' shows ran to full capacity in Bank or Ireland theater on the final day of Galway Science & Technology festival 2011.
• 7 October 2011: Important pulsar discovery by NUI Galway Astronomers
  Astronomers at NUI Galway have participated in the detection of pulsed gamma-ray emission from the Crab Pulsar at energies far beyond what current theoretical models of pulsars can explain.
• 30 September 2011: Centre for Astronomy Open Nights
  Our popular open evenings begin again, with an informative hour-long talk followed by a hands-on viewing of the night sky. Starting 12th October. Click link for details.
• 21 September 2011: Sea2sky
  Galway astronomers will be taking part in the Sea2sky event which will be held in Salthill on September 23rd.
• 30 August 2011: NUIG Pulsar research in the news
  Recent pulsar observations and simulations have been reported recently.
• 4 August 2011: GUFI reported in the Irish Times
  On the 4th August the Irish times reported on GUFI - Galway Ultra-Fast Imager - see http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2011/0804/1224301812025.html

The Centre

The Centre for Astronomy is a new initiative to bring together all the astronomy research and teaching in NUI Galway. The Centre was launched in January 2007.

Members of the Centre carry out research in Astronomy, Astronomical Instrumentation and Computational Astrophysics. Our research topics include: Applied Imaging, Clusters and Exoplanets, Gamma-ray Astronomy, High Speed Stokes Polarimetry, Pulsars, Star Formation & Astrochemistry, Ultra-cool Stars and Virtual Observatories.

We offer a Denominated Degree in Physics & Astrophysics. This degree has been running since 2000 and was the first such degree offered in Ireland. In addition Centre members are involved in the teaching of other undergraduate degree programmes in the schools of Physics and Mathematics.

If you are interested in coming here to work or to study please do not hesitate to contact us.

Dr Andy Shearer
Director: Centre for Astronomy, NUI Galway

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