This time, we were delighted to welcome students from the Moscow Ski & Snowboard Academy During the tour, we introduced the young athletes to the daily…

The Sergey Aleksandrovich Kolobov Observatory has once again welcomed guests — students from the V.V. Sherstnev Academic Lyceum. We gave them a tour,…

An extensive article dedicated to the work of our observatory has been published on the South Ural State University website. The main topic is the…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has confirmed the source of the powerful gamma-ray burst GRB 250314A. It was identified as the explosion of a massive…

November 24, 2025 The Sergey Aleksandrovich Kolobov Observatory welcomed guests — students and professors from the Physics Department of the Institute…

A non-periodic comet, first spotted in May 2025. While moving away from the Sun in November 2025, the comet disintegrated into several fragments, and…

Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1) is an interstellar comet discovered on July 1, 2025, by the ATLAS station. The comet is moving on a hyperbolic trajectory not…

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) is a long-period and dynamically old comet that has arrived from the distant outskirts of the Solar System. This image was captured…

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is a non-periodic comet with an orbital period of approximately 1,350 years. Its perihelion occurred in the latter half of the…

The "Pacman Nebula NGC 281" is an emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. It is a region of ionized hydrogen (H II region) where active star formation…

The Days of Science of the Chelyabinsk Region commenced in Magnitogorsk on October 23. The official opening ceremony of the forum took place at the entertainment…

Organic Molecules from Enceladus's Subsurface Ocean An international research team has analyzed data from the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) instrument aboard…

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, discovered on July 1, 2025, has become the third known object to arrive in our Solar System from the depths of the galaxy.…

September 27 – Astronomy Day! The date of the event is unique for each year. In 2025, this date is September 27. Astronomy Day is unique for each year…

The image was taken on 08/01/2025 at the S. A. Kolobov Observatory using an ASTROSIB RC500 telescope on an ASTROSIB AVM-700 mount with an SBIG Aluma AC4040-Ultimate…

September 13, 2025 – Employees of the Kolobov Observatory attended an event at the Information Center for Atomic Energy (ICAE) of Chelyabinsk with great…

On the night of September 7-8, we photographed the total lunar eclipse — the very one when the Moon turns "bloody"! We shot this spectacle with all possible…

On the night of September 7-8, 2025, the inhabitants of Earth will witness one of the most spectacular astronomical phenomena — a total lunar eclipse,…

3 years since the official opening of the S. A. Kolobov Observatory Exactly three years ago, on August 27, 2022, an important event in our history took…

Yesterday, 20.08.2025, a bright "Jellyfish" from a rocket launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome appeared over our region. Such a phenomenon occurs when…