The Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK PAN), a founding unit of the GeoPlanet Doctoral School, offers the opportunity to pursue doctoral studies leading to a PhD degree in the following scientific disciplines: Earth and Environmental Read More …
Decoding Space Plasma’s Hidden Order: How Chaos Follows Rules on the Smallest Scales The solar wind seems chaotic, but new research reveals it follows predictable patterns that could revolutionize our understanding of space weather and plasma physics. Picture this: you’re Read More …
On 11 March 2025, the first integrative excursion of GeoPlanet PhD students to the famous Permian salt mine in Kłodawa took place. Participants were able to trace successive levels (Zechstein cyclothems) of salt, starting with older sodium salts (halite) through Read More …
The halo of the Milky Way is an extended and roughly spherical region, sparsely populated by stars, that surrounds the Galactic disc. The halo mainly contains stars of old ages and low metal content. The orbits of these stars can Read More …
The Hall Thruster In space, expelling a plume of high speed mass is the only way to propel a spacecraft towards a desired destination. This plume exerts a reaction force on the spacecraft called the thrust force. Thrust acts in Read More …
Double black hole mergers strongly dominate the gravitational wave signals which are being detected by LIGO/Virgo instruments. So far, over 50 confirmed black hole – black hole mergers has been publicly announced together with the basic parameters estimates such as Read More …