Michał Michałowski (AOI) was given the Research Award of the City of Poznań. This annual award is for outstanding research achievements, important for the City of Poznań. Michał Michałowski was given the award on 29th of June during the ceremony … Continued
Born in Poznan polish astronomer Kazimierz Kordylewski was the first one who paid attention to the possibility of existence of the dust moons of the Earth. By the end of the 50-ties, he suggested that a densities of the interplanetary … Continued
On September 21, the small compact MINERVA-II1 rovers separated from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft (time of separation was 13:06 JST). The MINERVA-II1 consists of two rovers, Rover-1A and Rover-1B. It is confirmed that both rovers landed on the surface of asteroid … Continued
The presence of a ring around Haumea, a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune, is reported online this week in Nature. This discovery opens up new avenues of research in the trans-Neptunian region. Of the four known dwarf planets (Pluto, Eris, … Continued