Russia: Exploring Deep Space

Spektr-R to surpass view from Hubble [AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE]

Russia has launched into space its Spektr-R radio telescope, which is planned to be the most powerful ever and is the first deep-space observatory sent up by Moscow in a quarter of a century.

Spektr-R, launched in July 2011, will scour the fringes of the universe for black holes, mysterious quasar radio sources and the fast-rotating stellar remnants known as pulsars, Russian space agency Roskosmos said in a statement.

The instrument, dubbed the “Russian Hubble” after the iconic U.S. space telescope but many thousands of times more powerful, will give astronomers new opportunities for looking billions of light-years back in time to the young universe and unlocking the mysteries of black holes.

“It will allow us to look into the furthest reaches of the universe with a very sharp resolution and receive data about extra-galactic phenomena,” said the project’s constructor, Viktor Khartov, of the Lavochkin institute outside Moscow. Agence France-Presse

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