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 23rd October, with the official opening ceremony held at the entertainment centre…

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

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

September 27 – Astronomy Day! The date of this event varies each year, and in 2025, it falls on 27 September. Astronomy Day is celebrated twice a 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…

13 September 2025 - Employees of the Kolobov Observatory attended a compelling event at the Information Centre for Atomic Energy (ICAE) in Chelyabinsk.…

On the night of 7-8 September, we photographed the total lunar eclipse — the very one when the Moon turns blood red! We captured this spectacle with every…

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

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

Yesterday, 20.08.2025, a bright "jellyfish" cloud from a rocket launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome appeared over our region. Such a phenomenon occurs…

Calling all friends and lovers of space and the beauty! An exhibition of astrophotography from the S. A. Kolobov Observatory is now open to visitors at…

Key Observations The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected nine sources of bright blue ultraviolet light The sources lie at a record distance:…

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