By 7pm on December 25, we are all likely to have had our fill of turkey and ham, writes Niall Smith.

THERE’S already a bit of a hunt on at Cork’s Orion — a compact cottage called after a mighty stellar constellation, the Orion Nebula and the discernible shape (seen by telescope) of a hunter’s sword.

STAR-gazers and science students alike can venture across the globe and galaxy at the click of a button.

Astronomers using the Hubble space telescope may have found the smallest 'free-floating' objects detected.