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Fobos and Interkosmos mock-ups are on display at the exhbition "She and Space", which started on March 23, 2022, at "Zoya" museum (Moscow region).

Supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946 hides in Galactic plane.

New observational program of Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC X-ray telescope onboard Spektr-RG orbital observatory is focused on the most interesting celestial regions and objects.

Dr. Sergey Bartalev presents the results of the remote sensing project dedicated to studies of carbon kept by Russian forests.

A black hole in the X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 turned out to be strongly tilted with respect to the orbit of the binary. This discovery may have seroius implications for the measurements of black hole masses and spins from X-Ray observations. The results are published in Science on February 25, 2022.

February 28, 2022, organizer — the Committee on the Agricultural and Food Policy and Environment of the Council of the Federation, videoconference mode.

Full-scale mockup of an Ionosphere-M spacecraft for the Ionozond project is now on display at the IKI’s exhibition.

Annual Academic Space Readings dedicated to the memory of academician S. P. Korolev and other prominent Russian scientists – pioneers of space exploration started on January 25, 2022 at Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

At first AT2020mrf seemed to be an ordinary optical transient, but thanks to SRG/eROSITA discovery of a new X-ray source in the same place it became clear that the astrophysicists have encountered the most peculiar object.

Исследователи отдела космической динамики и математической обработки информации ИКИ РАН рассчитали сценарий миссии к далекой Седне — карликовой планете Солнечной системы, чья орбита находится за орбитой Нептуна. В 2075 году Седна должна пройти свой перигелий — ближайшую к Солнцу точку орбиты. И, похоже, именно у нынешнего человечества есть редкая возможность отправить к этому телу космический аппарат и дождаться результата. В следующий раз планета подойдет так близко к Солнцу лишь через 10 тысяч лет. «Встреча с Седной» может дать нам по-настоящему уникальную информацию о том веществе, из которого строилась наша Солнечная система миллиарды лет назад.