If life can make it here, it can make it anywhere | WSU News | Washington State University
https://news.wsu.edu/2016/07/11/life-can-make-can-make-anywhere/
If the origin of life is common on other worlds, the universe should be a cosmic zoo full of complex multicellular organisms.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch, a Washington State University astrobiologist, uses the evolution of Earth life as a model to predict what
humans might find living on distant planets and moons. He reports his findings in a new paper published in the journal Life.
The results of his work, conducted in collaboration with William Bains, a biochemist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
show that once life originates, the evolution of organisms functionally similar to plants or animals on Earth will naturally follow
given enough time and a suitable environment.
“If the origin of life can occur rather easily, a percentage of organisms on other worlds will reach higher levels of animal- or
plant-like complexity,” Schulze-Makuch said. “On the other hand, if the origin of life is a rare event, then chances are we live
in a rather empty universe.”

Five new planets orbiting a distant bright star discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft - SpaceFlight Insider
http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/...orbiting-distant-bright-star-discovered-nasa-kepler-spacecraft/
A team of astronomers, led by Andrew Vanderburg of the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), has recently detected five new exoplanets
circling a bright star designated HIP 41378, which lies some 380 light-years away. The newly found alien worlds are larger than our planet, with sizes
ranging from about 2.5 times the size of Earth to the size of Jupiter. The findings were presented in a paper published June 27 on the arXiv server.

The planetary system was spotted by NASA’s prolonged Kepler mission, known as K2. HIP 41378 was observed by K2 for a period of about 75 days
between April 27, 2015, and July 10, 2015. This new data, complemented by follow-up spectroscopic observations, allowed the scientists to detect
transiting events and distinguish five planetary candidates. However, the team admits that it wasn’t an easy task to unveil the new exoplanets.

The human universe: Could we colonise the stars? | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630190-900-the-human-universe-could-we-colonise-the-stars/
If we really are alone in the universe, should we take Earth's life to other planets? Especially as we might already have the means

Two inflated 'hot-Jupiter' planets discovered around distant stars
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-inflated-hot-jupiter-planets-distant-stars.html
Astronomers have detected two new "hot Jupiters" with a radius larger than they should have. Designated WASP-113b and
WASP-114b, these exoplanets orbit their host stars located some 1,170 and 1,500 light years away respectively. A July 8
paper detailing the finding appeared on the arXiv pre-print server.

According to the paper, WASP-113b and WASP-114b are larger in size than Jupiter, with an inflated radius of about 1.4 and 1.3
Jupiter radii respectively. However, although they are both similar in size, WASP-113b is less than half Jupiter's mass while
WASP-114b has almost twice the mass of Jupiter. Therefore, WASP-114b is 4.2 times more dense than WASP-113b.

016 Senior Review of Operating Missions
Solar System Exploration
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/2016seniorreview
The NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) conducts independent, comparative reviews of operating missions within each division
to maximize the scientific return from these missions within finite resources. NASA uses the findings from the Senior Review to
define an implementation strategy and give programmatic directions to the mission and projects concerned.

The 2016 Planetary Mission Senior Review (PMSR-16) was conducted from May16-26th for 9 missions: Curiosity, Dawn,
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), Mars Express (MEx), Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), New Horizons, Odyssey,
Opportunity, and Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN).

TOXYGEN: https://twitter.com/TheLabArtist

VIRGO: zdroj?

Resurrected radio dish could guide GPS on the moon | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2096748-resurrected-radio-dish-could-guide-gps-on-the-moon/

Arthur is coming out of retirement. The 26-metre satellite dish that famously brought Britain its first crackly, black-and-
white satellite TV pictures from the US in 1962 could one day find a new role as part of a control hub for a lunar GPS.

Third International Conference on the Exploration of Phobos and Deimos
18-19 July 2016
Phobos Deimos Conference 2016
http://phobos-deimos.arc.nasa.gov/

ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/ATNF-DailyImage/
The Survey of Water and Ammonia in the Galactic Center (SWAG) uses ATNF's Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) to map the central region of the Milky Way
where the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) resides. Clouds of molecular gas trace the shape of an infinity symbol, especially visible in the "dust ridge" between
the Galactic Center at Sagittarius A* and the giant molecular cloud Sagittarius B2. SWAG utilizes the full capabilities of ATCA to observe 42 spectral lines
of which ammonia (NH3) in its lowest excited rotational state (J=1,K=1) is shown above. Data acquisition is currently ongoing and will extend the imaged
region by three times towards positive and negative Galactic longitudes to offer an unprecedented overview of the Galactic Center.

Before NASAs Juno : Voyager Arrives at Jupiter / Mission To Jupiter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBs3na4GtCg