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Amateur space snapper ‘over the moon’ after his breathtaking astrophoto is chosen by NASA

Titled ‘A Northern Winter Night’ the stunning photograph by Łukasz Żak from Wołomin shows a 360 degree panorama of the snow covered ground with tall trees encircling the nebulae of the northern winter Milky Way. Łukasz Żak

Titled ‘A Northern Winter Night’ the stunning photograph by Łukasz Żak from Wołomin shows a 360 degree panorama of the snow covered ground with tall trees encircling the nebulae of the northern winter Milky Way.

New app brings Mars exploration closer to life on Earth

The mobile app from Warsaw-based firm Immersion VR presents NASA’s ‘Perseverance’ rover mission and the surface of Mars in an interactive way.

Kraków start-up teams up with US nuclear firm to fly to the moon and extract rare energy isotope

Experts from the Solar System Resources Corporation estimate that 200 tonnes of Helium-3 would be enough to satisfy the annual energy needs of the world’s population.

Warsaw space engineers join ‘planet hunter’ mission to find ‘Earth Twins’

Set to launch in 2026, the European Space Agency’s PLATO mission aims to revolutionise our understanding of how planets formed and planetary systems evolved by hunting down hundreds of alien planets and analysing their radius, mass and age.

Poland holds talks with NASA on space mission projects

The Polish Space Agency (POLSA) is holding talks with NASA on cooperation in building common devices and instruments for space missions and, above all, regarding space exploration, Aleksandra Bukala from POLSA has told PAP.

Pole in science team that detected possible presence of life on Venus

Janusz Pętkowski was part of the scientific group that made headlines around the world.

Warsaw app shows US medical staff how to prepare before dealing with COVID-19 patients

The app from start-up company Immersion was commissioned by the US government and uses digital avatars and videos to guide medical staff step by step, explaining how to properly put on a mask and other specific actions needed before dealing with infected patients.

Here comes the Sun: Polish instrument on board space craft set to unlock mysteries of giant star

A rocket packing Polish instruments will blast off on February 9 on a one-way mission to the Sun in an effort to answer some of the biggest questions surrounding our system’s star.

Musk’s ‘Nuke-Mars’ plan “not realistic” says leading scientist

The entrepreneur has raised the possibility of using nuclear bombs to blast the planet’s poles as a means of terraforming.

With NASA warning that asteroid collision is a certainty, planetary geologist begins research into how to survive deadly impact

At the end of July a massive asteroid dubbed ‘City Killer’ hurtled past earth. If it had hit Warsaw, the whole of central Poland would have been threatened with a crater several kilometres wide and 400 metres deep, says planetary geologist Dr Anna Łosiak.

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