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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.
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    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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    How feasible are drug factories in space?

    In orbit, in microgravity, it is possible to conduct research that cannot be done on Earth, for example, print 3D structures from living cells. Will drugs or replacement organs be manufactured in space? Dr. Piotr Kaczmarek-Kurczak from the Kozminski University talks about the possibilities.

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    Last tests of instruments developed by Polish company for 2022 Jupiter Mission to start soon

    Plasma-measuring booms created for the JUICE mission, one of the two largest missions of the European Space Agency, will be delivered to Germany in a few days where they will undergo their last magnetic tests,

  • A map from the KiDS survey projected onto the sky shows 'ripples' in the distribution of matter in the far Universe, imaged by gravitational lensing. The smallest visible spots are approximately 30 million light years in size. In the foreground is the Paranal Observatory, home to the VLT Survey Telescope. Credit: B. Giblin, K. Kuijken and the KiDS team. Foreground panorama: ESO/Y.Beletsky CC BY 4.0.
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    ‘Sky map’ reveals universe more uniform than previously thought

    A new map of the universe has revealed it is almost 10 percent more uniform than the standard cosmological model predicts.

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    Star Wars now more ‘science' than ‘fiction’, but intergalactic conflict unlikely, says expert

    Although it is now possible to wage war in space, no one would benefit from such a conflict, says a leading astrophysicist.

  • Artist's concept of a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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    Astronomers Find Clues That Planets Form Very Quickly

    Astronomers have found new evidence to suggest that planets form very quickly.

  • VLT telescope facility on Cerro Paranal at sunset. Credit: ESO/H.H. Heyer
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    Polish Space Scientists to Conduct Research into New Spectrograph for VLT Telescope

    Polish scientists will perform research during the first phase of building a new spectrograph for the 8-meter VLT (Very Large Telescope), which will be used for high resolution sky observation in the ultraviolet range.

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    Exatel to Launch Polish Satellite in About Three Years

    The head of Poland’s cybersecurity firm Exatel says he wants to launch the country’s first homegrown satellite in about three years with a long-term goal of expanding the country’s space sector.

  • Artist's rendering of the quasar ULAS J1120+0641. The object is 13 billion light years from Earth. The laws of physics in that area of the Universe may differ slightly from those in our area. ESO/M. Kornmesser / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
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    Laws of Physics Billions of Light Years Away Are Different to Those Here

    Astrophysicists have found that the laws of physics in outer space are different to those in our galaxy.

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  • Polish scientists reinterpret petroglyphs of Toro Muerto

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The geometric patterns, lines and zigzags that accompany the images of dancers (danzantes) carved in the rocks of the Peruvian Toro Muerto are not snakes or lightning bolts, but a record of songs - suggest Polish scientists who analyse rock art from 2,000 years ago.