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    VIRGOCosmos In Brief - Aktualní novinky vesmírného výzkumu v kostce
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    50 dní do startu!

    https://www.nasa.gov/feature/testing-confirms-asteroid-sampler-will-speak-clearly-with-earth
    A spacecraft designed to map the surface of an asteroid and then gather a sample from its surface will have plenty of information
    to share with scientists back on Earth during the next seven years, so engineers spent more than a week at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
    in Florida making sure the spacecraft's antennas, transmitters and other technical equipment will be up to the task.

    The communications system testing will be the last for the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft before it is packaged into launch configuration and
    trucked to Space Launch Complex-41 where it will be positioned on the nose of an Atlas V rocket and sent into space in early September.
    Once on its way to an asteroid dubbed Bennu, the spacecraft will unfold its power-generating solar arrays and start sending back reports
    to Earth that will be picked up by NASA's Deep Space Network.

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    Commands for a small test burn of ExoMars/TGO 18 Jul being uploaded today - big one on 28th!
    Getting lined up for the line-up burn | Rocket Science
    http://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/15/getting-lined-up-for-the-line-up-burn/

    On 28 July, ExoMars/TGO will perform one of the most important activities during its voyage to Mars:
    a powerful engine burn in deep space that will change the craft’s direction and velocity by some 334 m/second.

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    APOD: 2016 July 15 - NGC 2736: The Pencil Nebula
    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160715.html

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    NASA’s SDO Takes a Spin
    https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-s-sdo-takes-a-spin
    On July 6, 2016, engineers instructed NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, to roll 360 degrees on one axis.
    SDO dutifully performed the seven-hour maneuver, while producing some dizzying data: For this period of time, SDO
    images – taken every 12 seconds – appeared to show the sun spinning, as if stuck on a pinwheel. This video was
    taken by SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument in extreme ultraviolet wavelengths that are typically
    invisible to our eyes, but was colorized here in gold for easy viewing.

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    New Horizons: Imagining a Landing on Pluto
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKmixf1pC2w


    Imagine a future spacecraft following New Horizons’ trailblazing path to Pluto, but instead of flying past its target,
    the next visitor touches down in the midst of tall mountains on the icy plains of Pluto’s heart.

    There’s no need to wait for that fantasy trip, thanks to new video produced by New Horizons scientists. Made from more
    than 100 New Horizons images taken over six weeks of approach and close flyby, the video offers a “trip” to Pluto. It
    starts with a distant spacecraft’s view of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon – closing the distance day by day – with
    a dramatic “landing” on the shoreline of Pluto’s frozen plains.

    “Just over a year ago, Pluto was just a dot in the distance,” said New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, of
    the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado. “This video shows what it would be like to ride aboard an approaching
    spacecraft and see Pluto grow to become a world, and then to swoop down over its spectacular terrains as if we were
    approaching some future landing.”
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    Vše nej spoluobjevitelce prvního rádiového pulsaru Jocelyn Bell Burnell!
    Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Biography, Facts and Pictures
    http://www.famousscientists.org/jocelyn-bell-burnell/

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    Chandra :: Photo Album :: GRB 140903A :: July 14, 2016
    http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2016/grb/
    On September 3, 2014, NASA's Swift observatory picked up a GRB - dubbed GRB 140903A due to the date it was detected.
    Scientists used optical observations with the Gemini Observatory telescope in Hawaii to determine that GRB 140903A
    was located in a galaxy about 3.9 billion light years away, relatively nearby for a GRB.

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    Pro mně dnešní překvápko...

    JPL physically sits in both La Canada Flintridge and Pasadena.
    Why does everyone say NASA’s JPL is in Pasadena when this other city is its real home?
    http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/...ay-nasas-jpl-is-in-pasadena-when-this-other-city-is-its-real-home

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    Zítra v 19 h SELČ: NASA to Discuss Next Mars Rover on Facebook Live
    http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-discuss-next-mars-rover-on-facebook-live
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    Nothing like a drone to add a little perspective! These photos show progress on the GM Telescope construction site.



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    Solar Probe Plus Mission Moves into Advanced Development
    http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/pressreleases/2016/160714.asp
    NASA’s first mission to “touch” the sun has passed a critical development milestone that keeps it well on track toward its scheduled summer 2018 launch.

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    Scientists find that sunspots rise to the surface much more slowly than predicted
    http://phys.org/news/2016-07-scientists-sunspots-surface-slowly.html
    Solar active regions consist of strongly magnetic sunspots and surrounding regions of more diffuse magnetic field. These regions are the origin of solar activity
    which controls space weather and causes beautiful phenomena such as aurora but in some cases also damage to satellites or power grids. Solar active regions are
    thought to be the result of magnetic flux concentrations - bundles of magnetic field lines - rising from deep in the solar interior and penetrating the surface.
    A team consisting of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), The University of Göttingen, NorthWest Research Associates, and
    the High Altitude Observatory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research has now shown that these magnetic flux concentrations move upward through the solar
    interior at speeds of not more than about 150 m/s. This is much slower than predicted by the prevailing current model. For their study, which is published today
    in the journal Science Advances, they compared satellite observations and computer simulations.

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    VIRGO:
    JULIANNE: My o vlku... Třeba toto:

    ESA plans Euro-Russian lunar exploration to go beyond Apollo 'gift shop visit' - SpaceNews.com
    http://spacenews.com/...ts-euro-russian-lunar-exploration-goals-to-go-beyond-apollo-gift-shop-visit/
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    Astronomers map a record-breaking 1.2 million galaxies to study the properties of dark energy | SDSS | Press Releases
    http://www.sdss.org/...-record-breaking-1-2-million-galaxies-to-study-the-properties-of-dark-energy/
    Astronomers announced this week the sharpest results yet on the properties of dark energy.

    Hundreds of scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) collaborated to make the largest-ever,
    three-dimensional map of distant galaxies. The scientists then used this map to make one of the most precise
    measurements yet of the dark energy currently driving the accelerated expansion of the Universe.

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    Warm Jupiters not as lonely as expected
    http://phys.org/news/2016-07-jupiters-lonely.html
    After analyzing four years of Kepler space telescope observations, astronomers from the University of Toronto have given us our
    clearest understanding yet of a class of exoplanets called "Warm Jupiters", showing that many have unexpected planetary companions.

    The team's analysis, published July 10th in the Astrophysical Journal, provides strong evidence of the existence of two distinct
    types of Warm Jupiters, each with their own formation and dynamical history.
    The two types include those that have companions and thus, likely formed where we find them today; and those with no companions
    that likely migrated to their current positions.
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    :))

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    Personál DSN má dnes také velké důvody k oslavě! Klobouk dolů před jejich úžasnou prací!
    On this day in 2015, we were tracking New Horizons in the last few hours before Pluto Flyby.











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    JULIANNE: Loni se probírala tématika (ne)výběru českých kosmonautů. Taky si myslím, že tohle jsme projeli bez šance.
    Možná až v příští (a pravděpodobně až v té následující) dekádě...
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    VIRGO: Vida, to jsem ráda, že už to vyšlo! Ludmila Carone model prezentovala na AoPH, ale má zvláštní výslovnost a prezentace mi moc nepomohla se chytat, článek na to bude lepší.

    VIRGO: Už abychom tam také někoho měli :)! Jen se obávám, že do konce životnosti ISS už na to vzhledem k nepravidelným náborům v ESA a délce tréninku nemáme nejmenší šanci.
    Kliknutím sem můžete změnit nastavení reklam