Exoplanets: the Search for New Worlds? | CNRS News
https://news.cnrs.fr/infographics/exoplanets-the-search-for-new-worlds

Cosmic Neighbors Inhibit Star Formation, Even in the Early-Universe W. M. Keck Observatory
http://www.keckobservatory.org/recent/entry/four_most_distant_galaxy_clusters_ever_found
The international University of California, Riverside-led SpARCS collaboration has discovered four of the most distant clusters of galaxies ever found,
as they appeared when the Universe was only four billion years old. Clusters are rare regions of the Universe consisting of hundreds of galaxies containing
trillions of stars, as well as hot gas and mysterious Dark Matter. Spectroscopic observations from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii and
the Very Large Telescope in Chile confirmed the four candidates to be massive clusters. This sample is now providing the best measurement yet of when and
how fast galaxy clusters stop forming stars in the early Universe.

NASA's WISE, Fermi Missions Reveal a Surprising Blazar Connection
http://www.nasa.gov/.../goddard/2016/nasas-wise-fermi-missions-reveal-a-surprising-blazar-connection

Astronomers studying distant galaxies powered by monster black holes have uncovered an unexpected link between two very different wavelengths
of the light they emit, the mid-infrared and gamma rays. The discovery, which was accomplished by comparing data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared
Survey Explorer (WISE) and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has enabled the researchers to uncover dozens of new blazar candidates.

Francesco Massaro at the University of Turin in Italy and Raffaele D’Abrusco at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, show for the first time that the mid-infrared colors of blazars in WISE data correlate to an equivalent measurement of their
gamma-ray output.

24 August press conference_0
https://eso.adobeconnect.com/_a848728127/p3l3qqhq6un/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal

Delivery of the OSIRIS-REx Centaur upper stage to the Vertical Integration Facility

Italy Earthquake traces ancient patterns of geologic movement & human destruction
Italy's deadly earthquake is the latest in a history of destruction
https://theconversation.com/...lys-deadly-earthquake-is-the-latest-in-a-history-of-destruction-64384

News | Test for Damp Ground at Mars' Seasonal Streaks Finds None
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2016-215&rn=news.xml&rst=6597
Seasonal dark streaks on Mars that have become one of the hottest topics in interplanetary research don't hold much water,
according to the latest findings from a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars.

The new results from NASA's Mars Odyssey mission rely on ground temperature, measured by infrared imaging using the spacecraft's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS).
They do not contradict last year's identification of hydrated salt at these flows, which since their 2011 discovery have been regarded as possible markers for the presence
of liquid water on modern Mars. However, the temperature measurements now identify an upper limit on how much water is present at these darkened streaks: about as much as
in the driest desert sands on Earth.

Událo se v Praze přesně před 10 lety. Emoce vládnou do dnešních dnů... :)
IAU 2006 General Assembly: Result of the IAU Resolution votes | Press Releases | IAU
https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau0603/

VIRGO: mno, na Europě (a možná i na Ganymedu - o tom se mluví méně, ale oceán tam může být taky) by mohl být život víceméně pozemského typu (toho hlubokomořského, ne fotosyntetizující). Na Enceladu by to asi byla výrazně větší exotika a na Titan už se předpokládá biochemie zcela nepodobná té na Zemi (a museli bychom pak zásadně přehodnotit naše představy o obyvatelnách zónach u exoplanet i "exoměsíců")