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Mind-OGLE-ing: Two rogue planets called OGLE found drifting aimlessly across the Milky Way

Without a star to orbit around, the two planets called OGLE float through space in darkness NASA

Named by the Polish astronomers who found them, the planets could be just two of millions floating through the galaxy. So far, though, scientists have only managed to locate a dozen or so rogues, which is why adding these two to the bunch is deemed important.

Dwarf planet at the outer reaches of the solar system named after Polish goddess of wilderness

Dziewanna, which was discovered by Polish scientists at Warsaw Uni, is estimated to be 470 kilometres across, making its surface one-seventh of the Moon’s and one of the 40 largest known objects in the Solar System.

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Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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