White Dwarf Lashes Red Dwarf with Mystery Ray
http://www.deepstuff.org/white-dwarf-lashes-red-dwarf-mystery-ray/
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, along with other telescopes on the ground and in space,
have discovered a new type of exotic binary star: in the system AR Scorpii a rapidly spinning white dwarf star
is powering electrons up to almost the speed of light. These high energy particles release blasts of radiation
that lash the companion red dwarf star, and cause the entire system to pulse dramatically every 1.97 minutes
with radiation ranging from the ultraviolet to radio.

Artist’s impression video of the exotic binary star system AR Scorpii
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdFi2qX9Hek

When life appear in the Universe? More frequently in the future...
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.08448.pdf
Relative Likelihood for Life as a Function of Cosmic Time
Abraham Loeb,a Rafael A. Batista,b David Sloanb

Isolated Young Star Seen by Spitzer and WISE - SpaceRef
http://spaceref.com/astronomy/isolated-young-star-seen-by-spitzer-and-wise.html
The unusual object, called CX330, was first detected as a source of X-ray light in 2009 by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory
while it was surveying the bulge in the central region of the Milky Way. Further observations indicated that this object was
emitting optical light as well. With only these clues, scientists had no idea what this object was.

But when Chris Britt, postdoctoral researcher at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and colleagues were examining infrared
images of the same area taken with NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), they realized this object has a lot
of warm dust around it, which must have been heated by an outburst.

Comparing WISE data from 2010 with Spitzer Space Telescope data from 2007, researchers determined that CX330 is likely a young
star that had been outbursting for several years. In fact, in that three-year period its brightness had increased by a few hundred times.

http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia20700/the-loneliest-young-star

Melting of center mirror for the Giant Magellon Telescope at the Richard Caris Mirror Lab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkYBy5THPm4

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.