space environment (№ 271 ) 19.02.2020 (2020)

Replacement of the main crew of the Soyuz MS-16 spacecraft, comments by Sergey Krikalev.

Two months of sky survey with the ART-XC telescope.

Experimental work has begun at NPO Energomash to create a 4-chamber RD-0124M S engine for the Soyuz-5 launch vehicle.

Scientists have found out why the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet changes color.

The results of the activities of Roscosmos for 2019.

One line:

- The metrological base has started working on the East;

- Development of the manned transport ship "Eagle";

- Photo of Betelgeuse from the VLT telescope;

- The emblem of the cosmonaut recruitment in 2018;

- Japanese scientists have discovered a probable medium-mass black hole;

- Experiments on the ISS in the interests of universities;

- A double asteroid flew past the Earth.

Astrophoto of the week: traces of stars from different hemispheres in Iran, Villarrica volcano in Chile and the Large Magellanic Cloud, silver clouds from the ISS.

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The discovery of Pluto.