Asteroid Day is a movement aiming to raise awareness about asteroid threat and possible methods of its mitigation. Since 2015 Asteroid Day is held on June 30 each year, and recently it has been sanctioned by the United Nations. The Asteroid Day Declaration has been signed by hundreds of leading scientists and artists. Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute is the regional ...

On Aprill 19, at 11 a.m., we have a seminar by Olga Zakhozhay from the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, with the talk about peculiarities of radiation flows out of circumstellar discs of various masses and ages.

Kazakhstan-Japan astronomy mini workshop has been held in Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute today, March 29, 2017. It included a wide range of topics -- observational techniques, computational astrophysics, gravitational waves, cataclysmic variables, and more.

8th Kazakhstan-China-Korea (KCK-8) workshop on stellar dynamics and related fields (star clusters, stellar evolution, gravitational waves, black holes in galaxies) was held in Kunming (China), Dec 19-21.

Dr. Na Wang will visit FAPHI on December 02, where at 11 a.m., she will give a talk about the research held at XinJiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute was awarded Science Leader Award 2016 from National Center for Scientific and Technical Information and Thomson Reuters, as the most cited scientific organization in Kazakhstan during 2011-2015.

On September 13, 2016, at 14:00, we have a lecture by Klim Ivanovich Churyumov, who will talk about the results of the Rosetta mission to the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, discovered in 1969 at Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute. UPD: Video is available (see inside).