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Polish engineers to work on PLATO mission searching for Earth "twins"

Polish space engineers have joined an international mission to find ‘Earth Twins’.

  • Credit: EPA/ESA 03.12.2020
    Space

    Gaia space mission's latest sky map could ‘reveal new secrets of Galaxy and Universe’

    The latest sky map based on Gaia data showing extremely precise details on nearly 2 billion stars in our galaxy, has been released by the European Space Agency.

  • Artist's concept of the Borexino detector merged with the Sun. Credit: Maxim Gromov, Borexino Collaboration
    Matter & Energy

    BOREXINO experiment sheds new light on how Sun produces energy

    Solar neutrinos produced by the Sun have been recorded for the very first time, with the help of Kraków scientists working on the Borexino experiment of particle physics to study low energy solar neutrinos.

  • Gravitational microlensing of a rogue planet, artist's concept. Credit: Jan Skowron / Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw
    Space

    Polish astronomers discover the smallest rogue planet

    The smallest rogue Earth-like planet in the galaxy has been discovered by Polish astronomers.

  • How did two black holes of different masses collide? From the upper right to the lower left corner: 1) the binary star system phase, 2) the common envelope phase, where the black hole formed from the more massive star is inside the envelope of the second star (the black hole is not visible) 3) the phase of two black holes near the merger 4) gravitational waves accompanying the merger of black holes. Credit: Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center PAS, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abb
    Space

    Scientists explain how two black holes of hugely different masses collided

    In April 2019, gravitational waves were observed indicating that two black holes with significantly different masses had merged. The team led by Polish researchers explain how such different objects could be neighbours and how their cosmic encounter happened.

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    Space

    Polish Space Agency in talks with NASA about cooperation in space missions

    The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) is in talks with NASA about future cooperation, including jointly building devices and instruments for space missions, primarily regarding space exploration.

  • Credit: Janusz Pętkowski, press kit
    Space

    Dr. Pętkowski: New Mystery Emerges Concerning Possible Life on Venus

    In an interview with PAP, astrobiologist Dr. Janusz Pętkowski from MIT who is one of the scientists to discover phosphine in Venus's clouds, says: “Either we do not understand the chemistry of rocky planets, or we have the first potential suggestion that there is life in the clouds of Venus.”

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    Space

    AI helps researchers identify galaxy collisions in real and simulated universes

    For the first time, merging pairs of galaxies have been found with the help of artificial intelligence.

  • Space

    Life on…Venus? Molecules found on Venus could be of biological origin

    A rare phosphine molecule in the clouds on Venus has been discovered by an international team of scientists who believe the clouds could consist of biological organisms.

  • Artist's interpretation of the coalescence (joining) of the binary black hole system responsible for the GW190521 signal. Space-time, presented as a grid over the image of the cosmos, is distorted by the GW190521 wave. Credit: Raúl Rubio / Virgo Valencia group / The Virgo Collaboration.
    Space

    Monster black hole discovered after scientists record black hole collision 7 billion years ago

    The creation of a huge black hole, 142 times the mass of the Sun, has been observed after two smaller black holes collided seven billion years ago.

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Multifractal brain and early stages of multiple sclerosis

Electrical brain signals in patients with multiple sclerosis, a disease mainly associated with the slowing-down of information processing and a lack of motor coordination, show traces of multifractality, scientists from four Polish research institutions have found.