Off we go!
Today we are celebrating Cosmonautics Day! The day on which almost everyone raises their eyes to the sky, thinks about distant stars and space flights. And some of us recall a childhood dream to become a cosmonaut.
Scientists from the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems (DLNP, JINR) are conducting space-related basic research: one of the main directions of laboratory activities is astrophysics.
The Borexino experiment explores the elemental composition of the Sun and stars using neutrinos, and the TAIGA experiment studies cosmic rays. DLNP scientists strive for solving dark matter mysteries of our Universe as well.
The way from basic research to applied outcomes might be very long. The only thing seems to be of importance — there will be no progressive advance of humanity, no discoveries and no inventions without basic science research.
The photograph of Aleksei Leonov with a dedicatory inscription to the physicist Bruno Pontecorvo (from the archive of the scientist’s Museum-Study at DLNP).
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