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First images by Satellite Multiband Imaging System (KMSS-2) onboard Meteor-M №2-3 meteosat show the shores of Turkey and Norway.

On Tuesday, June 27 Meteor-M №2-3 satellite was launched from Vostochny together with 42 small spacecraft.

This finding confirms the hypothesis that the supermassive black hole in the center of our Galaxy once had been much more active that it is now. The results are published in the Nature journal.

…and went back again. Literally all X-ray space observatories studied this outburst in 2023, and among them was Integral. The paper with the first results of the observations was sent to MNRAS and published on arXiv.org. The picture from the paper was selected as the June 2023 Picture of the Month of the Integral observatory.

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).