Telescope | Sat Feb 20 9/8c on Discovery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7XA-ohKTOw

Cassini - Saturn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDrlWOhjz_Y


Voyager
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAUFQYeOHdc

Amazing interactive version of The cosmic microwave background.
Pick up the frequency, Galactic plane, Eclyptic, navigate with mouse.
This is the raw data from the Planck mission of the intensity fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background.
At the highest resolution it includes 50 million pixels of information.

http://thecmb.org/

K2’s First Five-Planet System
http://aasnova.org/2016/08/08/k2s-first-five-planet-system/
Led by Andrew Vanderburg (NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), a team of scientists recently
analyzed K2 observations of the bright star HIP 41378. The team found that this F-type star hosts five potential planetary candidates

Kepler team restarts powered-down photometer
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-kepler-team-restarts-powered-down-photometer.html
During a scheduled contact with NASA's Kepler space telescope on Thursday, July 28, the team found the photometer—the camera onboard the spacecraft—powered off.
The photometer was turned on again and the flight system returned to autonomous science operations on Monday, Aug. 1. They will confirm that science operations
have been resumed within a week. The team is currently investigating the cause; the spacecraft is otherwise operating normally.

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.