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Russian Academy of Sciences

Space Research Institute
Russian Academy of Sciences

News and Events (in Russian for the time being)

Lunar Crater Zeeman Shows Evidencies to Have More Water In Its Walls Than In the Floor

10/18/2023 - 15:00

Events

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.
Sun Might Become More Active In the Upcoming Months

09/12/2023 - 00:17

Research

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.
Six and a half Crab, or Thirty And Three Million Photons

09/04/2023 - 10:34

Research

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.
Portrait Of a Mean Galaxy Cluster in X-Rays

08/28/2023 - 14:00

Research

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.
Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC X-ray Telescope Helps to Reveal the Origin of High-Energy Radiation

08/18/2023 - 13:30

Research

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.
New Observatory Joins the Round Dance

08/02/2023 - 13:50

Research

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.
New Exploration of the New Moon: Discoveries Will Folow

07/17/2023 - 14:35

Research

Luna-25 mission, which is scheduled for launch in August 2023, is the first Russian new-generation-lander to study Moon.
IXPE Finds Polarization of the X-ray Emission From Molecular Clouds in the Milky Way's Centre

06/21/2023 - 19:36

Research

This finding confirms the hypothesis that the supermassive black hole in the center of our Galaxy once had been much more active that it is now. The results are published in the Nature journal.
Transient X-ray Pulsar RX J0440.9+4431 Switched To the Super-Critical Regime of Accretion For the First Time...

06/05/2023 - 10:46

Research

…and went back again. Literally all X-ray space observatories studied this outburst in 2023, and among them was Integral. The paper with the first results of the observations was sent to MNRAS and published on arXiv.org. The picture from the paper was selected as the June 2023 Picture of the Month of the Integral observatory.
A Strange Case of Carbon-13

05/18/2023 - 12:31

Research

Atmospheric Chemistry Suite, the Russian instrument onboard ExoMars TGO orbiter, found that carbon monoxide in Martian atmosphere yields less heavy carbon isotopes 13C than 'light" 12C. Results of the study have been recently published in Nature Astronomy.

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