Astronomers Are On A Celestial Treasure Hunt. The Prize? Planet Nine : NPR
http://www.npr.org/...3/489815076/astronomers-are-on-a-celestial-treasure-hunt-the-prize-planet-nine

Nobody's actually seen the new planet. The reason astronomers think it's out there is the strange behavior of some
smallish objects in the Kuiper Belt, a collection of celestial objects orbiting in the outer reaches of the solar system.

"The seven most distant of these objects, when they go really far away, they all go in the same direction," says Mike Brown,
professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).

That's one hint there's a planet tugging on them, but there are others. "They're all also tilted, compared to the planets in
the solar system," says Brown. "They're tilted about 20 degrees, and they're all tilted in nearly exactly the same direction."

There's a third oddity about these objects: They never come closer to the sun than Neptune, "as if they'd been pulled away from
the sun by something," he says.

Dawn Of Time - One Universe at a Time
https://briankoberlein.com/2016/08/13/dawn-of-time/
Although the Sun seems ageless and never changing, it is a star like any other. It’s only a bit older than the Earth itself,
and like every star it formed from the gas and dust of a stellar nursery. As we’ve come to understand stellar evolution, it
has become clear that stars get warmer as they age. Billions of years ago, our Sun was about 70% as luminous as it is today.
That means young Earth received less heat from the Sun than it does today. So much less heat that it wasn’t enough to sustain
liquid water. But geologic evidence clearly shows that there were oceans of water in Earth’s youth.

XCHAOS: No jo no... Mohl bych napsat román o tom, jak ze sebe uděláš blbce
během 5min. prezentace, pokud nemáš data pořádně ověřena, ale naštěstí to víš, takže ušetřím čas :)

Ono to zřejmě bude dřív. To co probíhalo v noci na webu, se dá přirovnat k manipulaci s nevybuchlou municí.
A není se čemu divit. Pokud se to potvrdí, půjde o jeden z objevů dekády. Čímž se dostáváme z5 k tomu, proč ta opatrnost.
Jinak samozřejmě sdílím faktor nedočkavosti na úrovni 10/10! :D

VIRGO: European Southern Observatory (ESO) will announce the finding at the end of August. - kdo má tak dlouho čekat?

VIRGO: tabby's star tl;dr naahodou by sa nenaslo ? ]

!! Čerstvý update.
Frontiers in Artifact SETI: Waste Heat, Alien Megastructures & Tabbys Star - Jason Wright (ST 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEDR-G2EDRM

OPUS Updates: New Horizons LORRI Calibrated Metadata for Pluto Cruise, Jupiter Encounter, and Post-Launch Checkout
http://ringsnodesearchtool.blogspot.cz/2016/08/new-horizons-lorri-calibrated-metadata.html

Pro zajímavost, když už je ta meteorická sláva. Spirit a meteor na Marsu:

Meteor Search by Spirit, Sol 643
Catalog Page for PIA03613
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03613
The panoramic cameras on NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers are about as sensitive as the human eye at night.
The cameras can see the same bright stars that we can see from Earth, and the same patterns of constellations dot the night sky.
Scientists on the rover team have been taking images of some of these bright stars as part of several different projects. One
project is designed to try to capture "shooting stars," or meteors, in the Martian night sky. "Meteoroids" are small pieces of
comets and asteroids that travel through space and eventually run into a planet.

90+ Perseid Meteors captured on Video August 11-12, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJpr787yyBg

Have we detected an alien megastructure in space? Keep an open mind
Seth Shostak
Have we detected an alien megastructure in space? Keep an open mind | Seth Shostak | Opinion | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/...ntisfree/2016/aug/12/alien-megastructure-tabbys-star-kepler-telescope

THE BIGGEST METEORITES FALLEN ON HEARTH
Behance
https://www.behance.net/gallery/31058715/THE-BIGGEST-METEORITES-FALLEN-ON-HEARTH-Corriere
The artwork shows the 100 heaviest meteorites found and seen falling to earth. For each meteorite it is represented on the arched
timeline: the year in which it was found or it has fallen, the weight (indicated by the size of the circle) and its category.

NASA's Fermi Mission Expands its Search for Dark Matter
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasas-fermi-mission-expands-its-search-for-dark-matter
Dark matter, the mysterious substance that constitutes most of the material universe, remains as elusive as ever. Although experiments on the ground and in space
have yet to find a trace of dark matter, the results are helping scientists rule out some of the many theoretical possibilities. Three studies published earlier
this year, using six or more years of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, have broadened the mission's dark matter hunt using some novel approaches.

Mars Today! Sol 1428 12:50, Aug 12, 2016, 9:12:40 AM UTC (approx.) Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech

YaleNews | Scientists spot two galaxies moving into the Milky Way from the cosmic countryside
http://news.yale.edu/2016/08/11/scientists-spot-two-galaxies-moving-milky-way-cosmic-countryside

Researchers have found two, faint dwarf galaxies that traveled from the remote hinterlands of space to the brighter lights of the more “cosmopolitan” Milky Way.

Yale astronomy professor Marla Geha, former Yale postdoctoral fellow Erik Tollerud, and their colleagues made the discovery by analyzing images taken by NASA’s
Hubble Space Telescope. The two galaxies, Pisces A and Pisces B, are valuable proxies for understanding how earlier galaxies ramped up their star formation
activities, the researchers said.

“Large galaxies in our universe form primarily by accumulating and merging with smaller galaxies,” Geha said. “Our Milky Way is growing in mass as smaller galaxies
fall in from lower density regions. That is to say, the Milky Way grows as smaller galaxies move in from the cosmic countryside. The two galaxies presented in this
paper show increased star formation, which is further evidence they are moving from the void into a higher density region.”

The study appears in the Aug. 11 issue of The Astrophysical Journal.

A new model of the impact that created the moon might upend theories about earth, too
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/...formation-theory-also-raises-questions-about-early-earth-180960077/

A new theory about how the moon formed might also tweak our understanding of early life on Earth.

The presence of gold and platinum in Earth's mantle has previously been assumed to be the result of a heavy shower of meteors raining down
on early Earth, but new research suggests another source—one enormous impact with the object that crashed into the planet to create the moon.

Around 4 billion years ago the Earth was under constant attack, according to geophysicists. Asteroids and meteors continuously smashed into the
planet for about 100 million years, a period known as the Late Heavy Bombardment. Any life on the planet at that time would be in constant peril.