space environment №211 21.11.2018 (2018)

The crew of the Soyuz MS-11 at Baikonur, the beginning of preparations for the flight.

The ISS anniversary is 20 years old.

The first successful activation of the MGNS spectrometer on board the BepiColombo probe.

The New Horizons probe is approaching the dwarf planet Ultima Thule.

One line:

- Asteroid Bennu in the lens of NASA's Osiris-Rex probe;

- ESA has published a video of the ISS's complete revolution around the Earth;

- Astronomers have discovered a star system on the verge of explosion.

Astrophoto of the week: the Tarantula nebula, a "small planet" on a lake in Sweden, the brightest comet 46P/Virtanen.