On September 26 at 23:14 UTC, the DART mission spacecraft hit the asteroid Dimorph, a satellite of the asteroid Didim, in order to develop the technology to protect the Earth from dangerous asteroids. The spacecraft measured 1.2 × 1.3 × 1.3 meters with solar panels measuring 8.5 meters and had an impact mass of about 570 kg. In this ...

The symbiotic object BX Mon experiences regular brightness fluctuations (ΔV ~3m), caused by increased accretion during periastron passage During the maximum brightness in 2019 a rapid weakening of the emission spectrum of the object was observed. At present, only the HI and FeII absorption lines are observed in the spectrum; this has happened for the first time in the ...

Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute signed an agreement on joint scientific, technical and academic activities with Pulkovo Observatory (St. Petersburg). Within the framework of the agreement, in the next few months at the observation site of the Academician Omarov Assy-Turgen observatory the Meade LX-200 telescope, which arrived from St. Petersburg will begin to operate to study dynamic processes in active ...

In the night of October 14, 2021 in T.B. Omarov Assy-Turgen observatory by means of AZT-20 telescope with back-illuminated CMOS-camera "Kepler" excellent values of background upper-limit (UL ~ 24.8 mag) was registered with astronomical seeing ~ 1.7" during an optical afterglow observation of gamma-ray burst GRB 210912A (r'-filter, 92 snapshots with 60s. exposure). It demonstrates high stability and transparency ...