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When Voyagers left the Solar System in 2010's, they discovered that the inner heliosheath is significantly thinner than predicted. Now, the 3D MHD-modelling run by IKI scientists showed that the fact can be explained, if we consider the effect of hot electrons and their thermal conductivity. Their results were published in MNRAS and are available on arXiv.org.

IKI researchers together with art experts from Kirillo-Belozersky Museum explore the possibilities to restore ancient masterpieces using artificial neural networks.

A new technique to estimate the size of particles in polar stratospheric and noctlilucent clouds was suggested by Oleg Ugolnikov, senior researchers at IKI. With the accuracy comparable to that of lidars and satellites, this method involves much simpler equipment, such as off-the-shelf RGB-cameras. Studies of these atmospheric phenomena are crucial to understand climate changes.

The image of Zeeman crater was made on August 17 by STS-L cameras on-board Luna-25 station, while it was orbiting the Moon. Scientists have compared the image with the data about the surface in the region. It turned out that the walls of the crater contains more water ice than its floor.

A period of relatively quiet Sun, which we witnessed in summer 2023, will most likely be followed by the increase in solar activity in autumn 2023.

Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC X-Ray telescope and Integral observatory look at Swift J1727.8-1613 X-Ray nova – the brightest object in the summer X-ray sky of 2023.

Using SRG/eROSITA X-ray data, researchers studied the properties of hot gas in galaxy clusters at large distances from their centers. The results of the study are published in MNRAS and are available on arXiv.org.

Astrophysicists from IKI and Ioffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences studied compact star cluster Westerlund 2. The paper with the results of the study is accepted for publication in MNRAS and is available on arXiv.org.

Spektr-RG, James Webb Space Telescope, Gaia, and since the end of July, 2023, Euclid circle around L2 point in animations by Natan Eismon and Maxim Pupkov from the Department of Space Dynamics and Mathematical Information Processing.

Luna-25 mission, which is scheduled for launch in August 2023, is the first Russian new-generation-lander to study Moon.