Prisuzhdena nobelevskaya premiya po fizike 2001 goda
9.10.2001 14:08 | M. E. Prohorov/GAISh, Moskva

Segodnya 9 oktyabrya 2001 goda Shvedskaya Korolevskaya Akademiya Nauk prisudila ocherednuyu Nobelevskuyu Premiyu po fizike. Ee laureatami stali tri amerikanskih uchenyh: Eric A. Cornell i Carl E. Wieman (iz NIST, Boulder, Colorado) i Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts).

Interv'yu Roberta Evansa Maiklu Shvarcu
D. Yu. Cvetkov/GAISh, Moskva, 9 oktyabrya 2001

Trudno nedoocenit' znachenie raboty lyubitelei astronomii dlya issledovanii sverhnovyh zvezd. Nadeemsya, chto interv'yu, v kotorom odin astronom-lyubitel' rasskazal drugomu o svoei zhizni, rabote i otkrytiyah, budet interesno mnogim.

Proshloe asteroida Eros
9.10.2001 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Otkuda poyavilis' ogromnye kamni, razborosannye po poverhnosti asteroida Eros? Eros zanimaet osoboe mesto sredi asteroidov ne tol'ko v silu svoei blizosti k Zemle, no i potomu, chto nedavno ego posetil zapushennyi NASA kosmicheskii apparat, NEAR-Shoemaker.