ISSN 0135-129X
Editor-in-chief: Corr.Memb. (astronomy) of the Latvian Academy of Sciences Dr.phys. A.Balklavs (till April 13, 2005)
Editorial Board:
"ZVAIGZNOTA DEBESS" ("ZvD") has for 40 years (since autumn 1958) been published by the Radioastrophysical Observatory of Latvian Academy of Sciences (till 1996 the Publishing House "Zinatne", now the publishing house "Macibu Gramata").
According to the season "ZvD" gives the information on the starry sky, the planets, meteors, comets and other interesting natural phenomena. The main purpose of the published articles is to inform and explain the achievements of modern astronomy and space exploration (astronautics). Information on observatories and about prominent scientists has been published, too. But "ZvD" has never been confined to only astronomical themes. Many interesting and useful articles are on physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, philosophy, folklore, science and especially many articles on Latvian history of science are published in "ZvD" to educate readers, and to improve their knowledge. This quarterly has a special chapter for schools, the impressions from the olympiads of astronomy, physics and mathematics for pupils; problems and solutions of problems are there, too. Prominent Latvian scientists (astronomers, physicists, mathematicians, etc.) are the authors of the articles, original publications by foreign scientists are there, too.
"ZvD" is known in the world: it is sent to numerous (over 120) foreign scientific libraries and is an integral part of the inter- library department of the scientific library of the Institute of Astronomy University of Latvia.