Spektr-RG

At night of September 26–27 RTT-150 optical telescope in Turkey observed asteroid Didymos and its smaller counterpart Dimorphos during the impact of DART mission (NASA). RTT-150 1.5-meter telescope is part of ground-based facilities in support of Spektr-RG project.

Sometimes the fact that one did not see something makes a difference. A recent paper published by Spektr-RG science team describes a gamma-ray burst (GRB), which Spektr-RG instruments had not observed, however strange it may seem,..

On September, 1, an Astronomy Telegram from Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC team announced a discovery of an optical counterpart of a bright X-ray pulsar — a transient star V520 in constellation Monoceros, which is Unicorn in Greek.

Students from Youth MediaCenter at Ministry of Science and Higher Education visited IKI to learn about X-ray Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope and Spektr-RG space observatory.

Russian Academy of Sciences announced the winners of the 2021 competition for RAS awards for young scientists and students. Among them are IKI astrophysicicts Andrei Semena, Ilya Mereminsky, Igor Zaznobin.

On 13 July 2019 a long-awaited Spektr-RG mission soared up from Baikonur to reveal the hidden X-ray Universe with its two telescopes — eROSITA and ART-XC.

As of June 12, 2022 Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC X-ray telescope onboard SRG observatory has studied more than one quarter of Galactic plane, which is the wealthiest region of X-ray sky, mostly in the Northern hemisphere and continues to scan it in the Southern.

SRGA J181414.6-225604, a new symbiotic X-ray binary in our Galaxy discovered by Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope on-board the SRG observatory.