A planet greeting from the danger zone | astrobites
https://astrobites.org/2016/08/08/a-planet-greeting-from-the-danger-zone/
“A new exoplanet has been detected.” While this message would have triggered tremendous excitement among astronomers a few years ago,
it speaks for the huge success of exoplanetary detections that by today the message has become daily news. In this respect, the result
of today’s article is nothing special: Yet another detection of an exoplanet. Nevertheless, this detection is worthy of being featured
on astrobites because the detected exoplanet K2-39b seems to be exceptional. What makes it special is the fact that this planet orbits
an old star on at the smallest distance ever observed so far.

New methodology provides better size estimates of meteorite impact craters
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-methodology-size-meteorite-impact-craters.html
Using newly developed methodology, planetary scientists from Western University have re-estimated the diameter of eight well-known impact
craters on Earth. The journal Science Advances published an explanation of the new technique and the improved estimations today.

HADIAK: Pěkný!

Astronomers offer a new bucket list for other worlds
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-astronomers-bucket-worlds.html
Lisa Kaltenegger, professor of astronomy and director of Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute, lead author Stephen Kane of San Francisco State University
and other scientists have written "A Catalog of Kepler Habitable Zone Exoplanet Candidates," which will be published in a forthcoming Astrophysical
Journal – listing more than two dozen possibly perfectly placed planets with potential to have liquid water or even life.
Nearly 3,500 exoplanets have been found by NASA's Kepler mission – launched seven years ago to survey the Milky Way.
"We're trying to make interstellar travel just a little bit easier," Kaltenegger quipped. "These exoplanets are the first ones we'd like to examine –
with more to come – as every day we're finding more. These are the first few pages in our ever-expanding travel guide."

Evidence mounts that neutrinos are the key to the universe's existence
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-evidence-mounts-neutrinos-key-universe.html
New experimental results show a difference in the way neutrinos and antineutrinos behave, which could explain why matter persists over antimatter.

Are the Aliens Trying to Extinguish an Entire Star? | Motherboard
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/aliens-are-clearly-trying-to-extinguish-an-entire-star

When did the lights turn on in the universe? | Astronomy.com
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/08/when-did-the-lights-turn-on-in-the-universe
The universe lived through a prolonged "Dark Ages" until hydrogen reionized.
Now, researchers are closer to figuring out when that happened.

Minerals Hint at Liquid Groundwater, More Oxygen in Mars's Past - Eos
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/minerals-hint-at-liquid-groundwater-more-oxygen-in-marss-past
Manganese deposits in Gale Crater fractures are similar to Earth features that usually require flowing water and highly oxidizing conditions.

ale chcel som sem hlavne dysonovu sferu znizujucu sa svietivost toby's star:
We just got even weirder results about the 'alien megastructure' star - ScienceAlert
http://www.sciencealert.com/we-just-got-even-weirder-results-about-the-alien-megastructure-star

VIRGO: americke predstavy boli viac technologicky sexi; ruske nejak vzdy viac smrdeli propagandou :] - mozno to bolo aj tym, ze zapadne futuristicke koncepty sa sem dostavali menej

China's lunar-based telescope observes a binary star system
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-china-lunar-based-telescope-binary-star.html
China's Chang'e-3 mission landed on the moon in December 2013 and deployed a lunar rover known as Yutu or Jade Rabbit;
it also carried a robotic telescope designed to observe various celestial objects such as galaxies, active galactic nuclei,
variable stars, binaries, novae, quasars and blazars in the near-ultraviolet band. The Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope
(LUT) was recently used by a team of Chinese astronomers to observe a peculiar binary star designated V921 Her. Results of
these observations are described in a paper published Aug. 1 on arXiv.org.

The observed (open circles) and theoretical (solid line) light curve of V921 Her. Theoretical light
curve without contaminated by the third light is plotted with dashed line. Credit: Zhou et al., 2016.

This galaxy, known as NGC 2337, resides 25 million light-years away in the constellation of Lynx. NGC 2337 is an irregular galaxy,
meaning that it — along with a quarter of all galaxies in the Universe — lacks a distinct, regular appearance. The galaxy was discovered
in 1877 by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan who, in the same year, discovered the galactic group Stephan’s Quintet (heic0910i).
A lopsided lynx | ESA/Hubble
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1632a/

HOWKING: právě to mě zajímá, nakolik je ta křivka správná. Budu pozorovat i z pátku na sobotu, ale čtvrteční noc údajně nejlepší.
HOCH2: Dík za info.

VIRGO: Neco podobneho znam - Mam doma knizku Sest dnu na Lune, kde je popisovan tyden pobytu malych pionyru na mesici. Je tam plno propagandy a techto vizi budocnosti ve vesmiru. Velmi doporucuji pro to, abyste si udelali obrazek te doby.

VIRGO: Byl jsem dne s v noci v Beskydech a řekl bych, že 10 m/h už se konalo. Tak pokud je ta křivka dobře, mohlo by to být i "podhajpováno" :-)