Warsaw astronomers discover Milky Way's longest-period classical Cepheid
Astronomers from the Astronomical Observatory at the University of Warsaw have discovered a massive variable star, i.e. a classical Cepheid, with the longest pulsation period in our galaxy. According to researchers, it is not only the brightest, but also probably the youngest known classical Cepheid in the Milky Way. It is 22 million years old.
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Record stellar-mass black hole detected in the Milky Way
Thanks to the Gaia Observatory, the European Southern Observatory's telescope and other ground-based instruments, scientists have tracked down a record-breaking black hole in our galaxy. Polish astronomers from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw took part in the research.
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Hunting for meteorites - oldest pieces of matter on Earth
Meteorites are the oldest pieces of matter that we can find on Earth. Scientists precisely calculate their age at 4.567 billion years. How to find your own meteorite? How to recognize it? Where in Poland can you still find most of them? Professor Szymon Kozłowski, an astronomer and meteorite expert, talks about it in an interview.
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Poland's largest satellite to be launched into orbit this year
Poland's most advanced and largest satellite will be launched into Earth’s orbit this year, the company co-responsible for its construction reports. The mass of the orbiter is comparable to the combined mass of all Polish satellites built so far.
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Could dark matter consist of elusive sexaquarks?
The candidates for dark matter particles include a certain neutral and difficult to detect particle - hadron, which is an S sexaquark that fits into the Standard Model. But how to observe this particle? Researchers from the Warsaw University of Technology have the idea for an experiment at CERN.
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Swedish astronaut on ISS uses Polish device in experiment
Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt used a Polish device to monitor brain function in an experiment conducted on the International Space Station. The spectroscope built in Lublin is now a permanent piece of equipment at the ISS, Wojciech Broniatowski from Cortivision told PAP.
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Scientists find new source of cosmic dust
A team of scientists, including Dr. Mariusz Gromadzki from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw, has identified a previously unknown source of cosmic dust, the university reports. The dust was produced by the interaction of the matter ejected during a la supernova explosion with the surrounding circumstellar gas.
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In 2023 we witnessed ‘truly Copernican revolution for space technologies in Poland’ says POLSA boss
The year 2023 ‘not only made the dreams of Polish space come true, it significantly exceeded them,’ says president of the Polish Space Agency Professor Grzegorz Wrochna.
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Device from AGH UST to fly to the Moon thanks to cooperation with company from Dubai
Orbital Space, a company operating in the United Arab Emirates, will enable students of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków to develop and test the Lunaris device. It is designed to study the interaction of selected materials and coatings with lunar dust - regolith. The invention is scheduled to fly into space in 2025.
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Planets form everywhere and are very common, says Toruń astronomer
‘Planets form wherever possible and they are very common. Although astronomers already know over 5,000 extrasolar planets, called exoplanets for short - we are still surprised by their diversity and the differences between most planetary systems and our parent system, the Solar System,’ says astronomer Dr. Grzegorz Nowak from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
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