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Astronomy Object of the Month: First Polish comet – C/1925 G1 (Orkisz)

3rd April 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the single-apparition comet C/1925 G1 (Orkisz), which has been officially recognized as the first comet discovered by a Polish citizen. It was spotted on the sky by a Cracovian astronomer, Lucjan Orkisz – at the time an employee of the Jagiellonian University.
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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. More...

C/1925 G1 (Orkisz)

II EU Workshop on Water Cherenkov Experiments for Precision Physics

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