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Swift Satellite and AI unravel the distance of the farthest Gamma-Ray Bursts

An international team of astrophysicists has developed a novel machine learning technique to measure the distance to gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe. The lead authors of these works are Dr. Maria Dainotti (Japan, NAOJ) and Mr. Aditya Narendra from the Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University, Poland.
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Jagiellonian University with its own space mission under ERC grant!

The European Research Council has awarded 3 mln € to dr Michał Drahus for the HYADES project, under which a dedicated space telescope will be built to observe hydrogen and deuterium around small bodies in the Solar System. The goal is to determine the origin of water on our planet and to search for new and previously unknown water reservoirs in the Solar System and other planetary systems. The five-year project will be carried out at the Department of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science at the Jagiellonian University. Więcej

70th anniversary of Polish radio astronomy
70 years ago the first radio astronomy measurements were carried out in Kraków

A photo of aurora borealis over southern Poland, May 10/11, 20 24

Aurora over Poland
10 V 2024

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