What does the solar system sound like?
https://theconversation.com/what-does-the-solar-system-sound-like-63014

NASA Space Sounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MmWeZHsQzs

Old planets always get too hot or cold for life in the end | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/.../2099139-old-planets-always-get-too-hot-or-cold-for-life-in-the-end/
Age matters. Searching for alien life on planets orbiting older stars may be fruitless because they always become prohibitively hot or cold.

The search for life on other worlds has focused on planets in what’s known as the habitable zone – the ring around stars where it’s the right
temperature for liquid water. That has led some to target planets orbiting red dwarf stars, as their smaller size and cooler temperatures mean
planets in the habitable zone are closer in, and so easier to spot. But we should also look for planets whose stars are the right age,
regardless of their size, say Shintaro Kadoya and Eiichi Tajika at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

First images from Adaptive Optics Lucky Imager (AOLI)
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-images-optics-lucky-imager-aoli.html
The Adaptive Optics Lucky Imager (AOLI) on the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) has obtained its first adaptive-optics closed-loop results,
an important milestone in the development of this state-of-the-art instrument that aims at combining adaptive optics (AO) and lucky imaging
(LI) to obtain the highest-ever resolution images at visible wavelengths from the ground.

Astrobiologists debate which chemical signatures would hint at life on other worlds.
Planet hunters seek new ways to detect alien life : Nature News & Comment
http://www.nature.com/news/planet-hunters-seek-new-ways-to-detect-alien-life-1.20327
In the search for life beyond Earth, false alarms abound. Researchers have generally considered, and rejected,
claims ranging from a 1970s report of life on Mars to the 1990s ‘discovery’ of fossilized space microbes in a meteorite.

Now, inspired by the detection of thousands of planets beyond the Solar System, NASA has started a fresh effort to learn
how to recognize extraterrestrial life. The goal is to understand what gases alien life might produce — and how Earth-bound
astronomers might detect such ‘biosignatures’ in light passing through the atmospheres of planets trillions of kilometres
away (see ‘Searching for alien life’).

How the face of a distant star reveals our place in the cosmos | Aeon Ideas
https://aeon.co/ideas/how-the-face-of-a-distant-star-reveals-our-place-in-the-cosmos
Mount Wilson boasts the world’s longest optical interferometer: the Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array.
The CHARA Array is resolving the surfaces of nearby stars, providing unprecedented glimpses of the Sun’s neighbours.

How the face of a distant star reveals our place in the cosmos | Aeon Ideas
https://aeon.co/ideas/how-the-face-of-a-distant-star-reveals-our-place-in-the-cosmos

ChemCam Update - Manganese Oxides on Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oayVInNUq8w

Tomorrow ExoMars 2016 will perform another Trajectory Correction Maneuver
ExoMars-2016 enters path to the Red Planet!
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/exomars2016-mission-dsm.html

Illgraben 22.07.2016 - lave torrentielle, Murgang, debris flow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ENe7wDKP6I

hohó!
The OSIRIS-REx rocket fairing has arrived NASA Kennedy Center!

Scientists observe a superluminous supernova that appears to have exploded twice
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-scientists-superluminous-supernova.html
In recent years, a new type of supernova has been discovered, about which very little is yet known, and which are brighter and longer-lasting.
Astronomers call them superluminous supernovae (SLSN). Although only about a dozen of them are known, an international group of researchers has
used the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS (GTC) to observe a superluminous supernova almost from the moment it occurred. The research has revealed
surprising behaviour, because this supernova showed an initial increase in brightness that later declined for a few days, and then increased
again much more strongly. The scientists have combined from the GTC with other observations in order to try to explain the origin of the phenomenon.


PIC: This graph shows the evolution of the apparent brigntness of the new supernova it is shown according to data collected by the Dark Energy Survey.
It can be seen how an initial increase in brightness occurs which is then reduced for several days. Subsequently, the brightness increases again during
the main sequence of the supernova. Credit: Mathew Smith.

Catalog Page for PIA20856
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20856
This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows terrain in the southern hemisphere of Ceres. Most of the image is
the impact crater named Annona (37 miles, 60 kilometers across); the smaller, prominent crater at upper left is unnamed.

Dawn took this image on June 7, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 385 kilometers above
the surface. The image resolution is 120 feet (35 meters) per pixel.

Catalog Page for PIA20856
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20856
This view from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows terrain in the southern hemisphere of Ceres. Most of the image is
the impact crater named Annona (37 miles, 60 kilometers across); the smaller, prominent crater at upper left is unnamed.

Dawn took this image on June 7, 2016, from its low-altitude mapping orbit, at a distance of about 385 kilometers above
the surface. The image resolution is 120 feet (35 meters) per pixel.

Sol 1338 Curiosity self-portrait, with rear facing MastCam.via Kevin M. Gill.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

An almost invisible galaxy weighs as much as our own.
The Milky Way’s dark twin revealed : Nature News & Comment
http://www.nature.com/news/the-milky-way-s-dark-twin-revealed-1.20333
It took 33.5 hours on one of the world’s largest telescopes, but for the first time astronomers have measured the motion of stars inside a newly
recognized breed of dimly lit galaxy. The stars’ rapid speed reveals that the galaxy weighs as much as the far more brilliant Milky Way1.

“It’s an important measurement,” says Avi Loeb, chair of the astronomy department at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was not
involved in the study. “It’s a very challenging measurement, and they should be saluted for getting it.”

‘Ultradiffuse’ galaxies came to attention only last year, after Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and Roberto Abraham
of the University of Toronto in Canada built an array of sensitive telephoto lenses named Dragonfly. The astronomers and their colleagues observed
the Coma galaxy cluster 101 megaparsecs (330 million light years) away and detected 47 faint smudges.