Tag: astronomy

The Very First Stars

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Outer Space

The Very First Stars

Our sun has been burning for 4.5 billion years, but it was not the first of its kind – those stars belong in a corner of the universe that spans 14 billion years.

Łukasz Kaniewski

Reaching Out to the Stars

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Science

Reaching Out to the Stars

In 1847, Maria Mitchell became the first American woman astronomer to discover a comet. Alongside her love for the stars, she was a passionate campaigner for gender equality in the sciences.

Julia Fiedorczuk

We Live Inside the Sun

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Outer Space

We Live Inside the Sun

Astronomer Paweł Preś talks about geomagnetic storms, drunk photons, and why the sun is much more powerful than we could ever imagine.

Jan Pelczar

Jocelyn and the Stars

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Science

Jocelyn and the Stars

In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars. Seven years later, her supervisor was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for this groundbreaking discovery, but Bell’s name was nowhere to be found. We tell her story.

Łukasz Kaniewski