The case of the missing craters
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-case-craters.html
When NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived to orbit the dwarf planet Ceres in March 2015, mission
scientists expected to find a heavily cratered body generally resembling the protoplanet Vesta,
Dawn's previous port of call.

Instead, as the spacecraft drew near to Ceres, a somewhat different picture began to emerge:
Something has happened to Ceres to remove its biggest impact basins.
Now, writing in the online journal Nature Communications, a team of Dawn scientists led by
Simone Marchi of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, reports on their computer
simulations of Ceres' history. These suggest that Ceres has experienced significant geological
evolution, possibly erasing the large basins.

Astronomers Uncover Hidden Stellar Birthplace
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/astronomers-uncover-hidden-stellar-birthplace/
A team of astronomers from the University of Manchester, the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and the University of Bonn
have uncovered a hidden stellar birthplace in a nearby spiral galaxy, using a telescope in Chile. The results show that the speed
of star formation in the centre of the galaxy - and other galaxies like it - may be much higher than previously thought.

The team penetrated the thick dust around the centre of galaxy NGC 4945 using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA),
a single telescope made up of 66 high precision antennas located 5000 metres above sea level in northern Chile.

Pápá... :´(
Farewell, silent Philae | Rosetta - ESA's comet chaser
http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/07/26/farewell-silent-philae/
Tomorrow, 27 July 2016 at 09:00 UTC / 11:00 CEST, the Electrical Support System Processor Unit (ESS) on Rosetta will be switched off.
The ESS is the interface used for communications between Rosetta and the lander, Philae, which has remained silent since 9 July 2015.

ESA Euclid Telescope Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer mock-up displayed at The Farnborough International Airshow.

Comet Lovejoy shows asymmetric behavior at perihelion
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-comet-lovejoy-asymmetric-behavior-perihelion.html
Indian astronomers have recently conducted spectrographic observations of long-period Comet Lovejoy to study its gas emission.
They found that this comet showcases an asymmetric behavior at perihelion and an increase in the activity during the post-
perihelion phase. The findings were detailed in a paper published July 22 on the arXiv pre-print server.

Mikhailo Lomonosov
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/mikhailo-lomonosov.html
Named after a true renaissance man of Russia, the Mikhailo Lomonosov satellite will search for most elusive physical phenomena
far above it in the Universe and below it in the Earth's atmosphere. After a decade in development, Lomonosov became the primary
payload to be launched during the first mission from Russia's new Vostochny spaceport.

Polar Stratospheric Cloud
http://spaceweathergallery.com/...v_upload.php?upload_id=127711&PHPSESSID=femvem49n7votvpk8chuaa6vb7
Polar Stratospheric Cloud Taken by Marcelo on July 25, 2016 @ San Martín Base

DJ Shadow: Sitting here thinking about how mind-blowing @bluedotfestival was...playing my music in a science-based context

ASKAP PAF installation
Chequerboard Phased-Array Feed (PAF) installation at the Australian SkA Pathfinder (ASKAP) thanks to
our amazing team of engineers, technicians, and wonderful support staff. Wide-field 21-cm images from
ASKAP-12 with all 36 beams (FOV = 30 sq degr) are coming as soon as system tests have been completed.
ATNF Daily Astronomy Picture
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/ATNF-DailyImage/

Seven new embedded clusters detected in the Galactic halo
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-embedded-clusters-galactic-halo.html
A team of Brazilian astronomers, led by Denilso Camargo of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre,
has discovered seven new embedded clusters located unusually far away from the Milky Way's disc. The findings, presented
in a paper published July 3 on arXiv.org, could provide new insights on star cluster formation.
Embedded clusters are stellar clusters encased in an interstellar dust or gas, consisting of extremely young stars. They
are crucial for astronomers to better understand star formation and early stellar evolution. Studying these clusters could
reveal the origin of stellar masses as well as the origin and evolution of protoplanetary disks, where planet formation
processes take place.

A Pulsar and a Disk
http://aasnova.org/2016/07/25/a-pulsar-and-a-disk/
Recent, unusual X-ray observations from our galactic neighbor, the Small Magellanic Cloud,
have led to an interesting model for SXP 214, a pulsar in a binary star system.

The energy distribution of the X-ray emission from SXP 214 over time. Dark shades or blue colors indicate high counts, and light
shades or yellow colors indicate low counts. Lower-energy X-ray emission appeared only later, after about 20 ks. [Hong et al. 2016]

Exciting New Images | Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
http://www.lroc.asu.edu/posts/932

Just-so black holes | Harvard Gazette
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/07/just-so-black-holes/
Astronomers Aaron Smith and Volker Bromm of the University of Texas at Austin, working with Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
have discovered evidence for an unusual kind of black hole born extremely early in the universe. In new research they show that a recently discovered
source of intense radiation is likely powered by a “direct-collapse black hole,” a phenomenon predicted by theorists more than a decade ago.

The work was published this month in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Telescopes could be smaller, lighter and less power hungry
SPIDER shrinks telescopes with far-out design | Science News
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/spider-shrinks-telescopes-far-out-design

NASA’s SDO Watches Bursts of Solar Material
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUJs1nxMC4A

OSIRIS-REx Tech – Surveying an Asteroid with Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYmgc9XL_Vs