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More Polish components ready for PROBA-3 Sun mission
Two important components for the international mission PROBA-3, which will study the corona of the Sun, have been built and tested by Polish engineers from SENER Polska.
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Polish astronomers in the great European observation network OPTICON-RadioNet Pilot
The largest European network coordinating astronomical research, OPTICON-RadioNet Pilot (ORP), has been launched with the participation of astronomers from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń and the University of Warsaw.
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Scientists image magnetic fields at the edge of supermassive black hole
Space researchers analysing the properties of a supermassive black hole have managed to both measure its polarization and imaged its magnetic field.
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Most detailed sky map ever reveals over 25,000 supermassive black holes
Polish researchers working with an international team of scientists have prepared a sky map showing over 25,000 active supermassive black holes.
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Map of entire Poland created from satellite imagery
A map of Poland's land cover has been created based on images from the Sentinel-2 satellite.
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Kraków start-up joins US nuclear firm to extract ‘rare’ helium-3 from Moon
A Kraków start-up has teamed up with America’s US Nuclear Corp to go to the moon in search of helium-3 isotape.
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Warsaw researchers develop detailed optical reddening maps of Magellanic Clouds
The most accurate maps ever created of the interstellar reddening in the Magellanic Clouds have been presented by astronomers from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw working in the OGLE sky survey project. The clouds which are seen as a 'laboratory' for galaxy studies, and the maps have now been hailed as an ‘excellent tool’ for further cosmological research.
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Solar System formed in two steps, scientists say
An international team of scientists has come up with a new theory about how the Solar System was formed.
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Science in 2020 – not just coronavirus
The SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus dominated the year 2020, but a lot of interesting things also happened in science. For starters, a probe embarked towards the Sun, the Americans flew into Earth's orbit on a private shuttle, the legendary Arecibo Observatory radio telescope collapsed and record heat was recorded in Antarctica, to name but a few.
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