On December 21, the inhabitants of the Earth could observe a rare astronomical phenomenon. In the evening sky, the two bright planets Jupiter and Saturn were visible at a small angular distance from each other, only 6 arc minutes.

Here you can download the 2021 astronomical calendar compiled for Almaty location: sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset moments,  length of days, moments of equinoxes and solstices.

The Laboratory of physics of the Moon and planets at Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute celebrates its half-century anniversary.

A news story from the "MK Kazakshtan" online and print media outlet about Assy-Turgen observatory.

A news story of "MK Kazakhstan" newspaper highlighting the upgraded computational cluster in Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute.

Recently, the FAPHI computer cluster was considerably updated within the framework of the grant project AP08052312 "Numerical study of the mechanism of formation of spiral arms in disk galaxies" from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2020-22. The cluster was expanded with three new SuperMicro 7049GP-TRT high-performance servers.

The 12th Kazakhstan-China-Korea Meeting on Stellar Dynamics and related fields (KCK-2020) will be hosted this year by the Energetic Cosmos Laboratory of Nazarbayev University (Nur-Sultan city), during October 26-30, 2020. The workshop title includes only three countries; nonetheless, participants from any country are welcomed. [workshop postponed]