space environment №175 27.12.2017 (2017)

Space lesson at the RSC Energia Museum.

The Russian Space Systems Holding is developing an updated model of the planet's surface "Digital Earth".

NASA is considering sending probes to Proxima Centauri in 2069.

One line:

- Screens to protect nanosatellites from radiation;

- New Year on the ISS.

Chronograph: Luna-1 station, says designer Vadim Petrov (2008 shooting).

The best astrophotographs of 2017: October night on the south coast of Iceland, the galaxy "M-63 Sunflower", the crater Tycho on the Moon, Mercury passes along the solar disk, the Milky Way over the glacial National Park in Argentina, the evolution of Venus, bridges in the Chinese observatory "Lamost" against the Milky Way, Saturn and the Cassini gap, the Cone nebula, a molecular cloud of Ophiuchus Rho.