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It was not a joke: on the first day of the month the number of energetic solar protons near the Lagrange point L2 increased significantly to around 14 counts per second. This was almost 7 times higher than usual background, registered by ART-XC detectors, and the most prominent rise in 5 years of monitoring Sun's activity.

The team of astrophysicists from IKI and other organizations used X-ray data collected by SRG/eROSITA telescope onboard Spektr-RG observatory to look into the hot interior of the S147/Spaghetti nebula and explain its unusual properties.

28th February in Russia is Arctic Day. Satellite remote sensing data are crucial for those, who study and work here. IKI scientists develop special algorithms for satellite microwave radiometry and run subsatellite experiments to refine the models, which are used for data processing. Results of such experiment, organized together with Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute and Atomflot, are already included in the database of IKI-Monitoring center of collective use.

Noctilucent clouds are typically observed in summer, but in December 2024 these structures were seen in Siberia. IKI scientist Oleg Ugolnikov has studied this rare event. The paper was published on arXiv.org.

IKI scientist and her colleagues used the data gathered by SWARM low-orbit spacecraft (ESA) and MERRA atmospheric reanalyses to investigate the effects caused by major earthquake M7, which occured on January 22, 2024.

Using numerical models, IKI astrophysicists suggested the mechanism underlying the formation of rapidly moving neutron stars.

Scientists use the instruments onboard TGO (ESA/Roscosmos), Mars Express, and Venus Express (ESA) Martian orbiters to study the subtleties of the planet's atmospheric composition.

One of the urgent problems in space plasma studies is the way magnetic energy, stored in the Earth's magnetotail as a result of interactions with the solar wind, turns into kinetic energy, i.e. energy of hot plasma motion. IKI scientists get closer to the answer using data of MMS mission.

Satellite data analysis shows that swamp territories in Russia are being colonized by trees. On an average, in 2001–2022 about 430 thousand hectares of forests growing on the swamp territories add annualy to the total forest area of the country.

Scientists at IKI and Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences study the heavy fuel oil spill using satellite radar data and SeeTheSea information system.