The Armagh Observatory and Planetarium has helped lead the discovery of eight new stars.
The world-renowned astronomical research centre has co-authored a research paper that has announced the discoverd of the new very hot stars that have effective temperatures of over 100,000 Kelvins.
One of the stars identified is the central star of a newly discovered planetary nebula, which is one light year in diameter while another two of the others are pulsating, or ‘variable’ stars.