... Discovery of enrichment of the envelopes of post-AGB stars with heavy metals . As a result of monitoring carried out at the BTA telescope, a new phenomenon was discovered in the optical spectra of post-AGB supergiants with an emission at 21 ?m and an overabundance of carbon and heavy metals in the atmospheres - the splitting of the strongest absorption lines. ... Thus, we discovered for the first time the enrichment of the stellar envelope with heavy metals synthesized by the s-process. ...

... On the base of laboratory simulations (on rotating shallow water) of the formation of spiral arms in galactic gaseous disks, the existence of giant anticyclones in them was predicted. Numerical simulations shown that the vortex structures arise on a linear stage of spiral arms formation simultaneously with the latter. ... Thus second giants structures, after spiral arms, in spiral galactic disks are discovered. ...