Asteroid hunters get hands-on help

Students from all over Europe are in Cork this week to scour the heavens for doomsday asteroids as part of an EU youth astronomy event.

Regina Mundi College in Cork is hosting the Comenius-funded initiative, involving students from schools in France, Portugal, Poland and two schools from Britain.

The visitors arrived in Cork on Sunday — the start of Science Week — and spent yesterday at the city’s award-wining Blackrock Castle Observatory.