News and Events (in Russian for the time being)

Supernova SN 2023ixf, which blasted on May 18 in the Pinwheel Galaxy M101, appeared to become more and more bright in X-rays even after its optical luminosity started to fade. The results of the observations were published in Astronomer's Telegram.

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.

Russia and China mutually exchanged Moon samples, which had been delivered to the Earth by Luna-16 and Chang'e-5 missions.

A new information system Uglerod-E developed at IKI will be used to monitor carbon ("uglerod" is Russian for "carbon") in the forests and other ecosystems.

On April 12, 2023, on the Cosmonautics Day, the 20th Conference of Young Scientists began at IKI. For three days more than 200 students and researchers presented their scientific results in various fields of space science.

On April 15, 2023 IKI welcomed everyone interested in space at our Doors Open Day dedicated to Yuri Gagarin's first flight in space. The program included tours around the exhibition and popular lectures about Moon exploration and astrochemistry, which are now available on the web (in Russian).

Today, April 12, 2023 we celebrate the 62nd year since Yuri Gagarin opened the space for mankind!
IKI hosts the XX conference of young scientists and, on April 15, Doors Open Day for everyone interested in space science. Also, IKI researchers give a series of popular lectures about space science.

5–8 апреля 2023 года в Институте космических исследований РАН прошел образовательный Интенсив для учеников «космических классов» Школы №60 Ростова-на-Дону.

From Marh 25 to April 6 IKI hosted a series of events for the students of 10th year, studying under Space Classes program, which is supported by the Department for Education of Moscow Governement.

In the end of March 2023 Russian Science Foundation published the lists of winners of three grant competitions. Among the 585 projects of the individual scientific groups to be supported by RSF are the projects led by IKI researchers.