Giant Magellan Telescope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeoT-Xfy7H4

Can one cosmic enigma help solve another? Astrophysicists argue fast radio bursts could provide clues to dark matter
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-cosmic-enigma-astrophysicists-fast-radio.html
Astrophysicists from the Johns Hopkins University have proposed a clever new way of shedding light on the mystery of dark matter, believed
to make up most of the universe. The irony is they want to try to pin down the nature of this unexplained phenomenon by using another,
an obscure cosmic emanation known as "fast radio bursts."

In a paper published online by the journal Physical Review Letters the team of astrophysicists argues that these extremely bright and brief
flashes of radio-frequency radiation can provide clues about whether a particular kind of ancient black hole is what makes up dark matter.
Julian Munoz, a Johns Hopkins graduate student and the paper's lead author, said fast radio bursts, or FRBs, provide a direct and specific
way of detecting black holes of a specific mass, which are the suspect dark matter.

Gemini Images Galaxy That Is 99.99 Percent Dark Matter | Gemini Observatory
http://www.gemini.edu/node/12559
Using the world’s most powerful telescopes, an international team of astronomers has discovered a massive galaxy that consists
almost entirely of Dark Matter. Using the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Gemini North telescope – both on Maunakea, Hawai‘i –
the team found a galaxy whose mass is almost entirely Dark Matter. The findings are being published in The Astrophysical Journal.

OSIRIS-REx: 2 týdny do startu!

ALMA Finds Unexpected Trove of Gas Around Larger Stars - NRAO: Revealing the Hidden Universe
https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressreleases/2016-alma-ob-disk
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) surveyed dozens of young stars – some Sun-like
and others approximately double that size – and discovered that the larger variety have surprisingly rich reservoirs of
carbon monoxide gas in their debris disks. In contrast, the lower-mass, Sun-like stars have debris disks that are virtually gas-free.

BLACKHEAD: Přes lepící pásky jsou na ISS největší odborníci! :)

[ VIRGO @ Dobyvani vesmiru a kosmonautika ]

HADIAK: Taky jsem se tomu vbcera podivoval,co to tam visi.. :-D

NEBULA & VIRGO: IMHO to maj prilepeny na nejaky oboustrance (ty bily pasky)... Ale ta stojici lzice se fakt povedla... ;-)

Rosetta captures comet outburst / Rosetta / Space Science / Our Activities / ESA
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_captures_comet_outburst

We have less than a billion years to enjoy Earth before the Sun renders it inhospitable.

HiRISE | Becquerel Crater Dune and Yardang Interactions (ESP_034419_2015)
http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_034419_2015
The creation of digital terrain models (DTMs) is an integral part of studying dune activity on Mars. They are used to determine dune heights
and for precisely tying annual monitoring images to the DTM (called orthorectifying) for more accurate dune displacement calculations.

HiRISE DTMs of Becquerel Crater, located in Arabia Terra, are especial helpful for understanding dune-topography interactions. A dune field
can be seen lining the north and south edges of the crater’s interior layered deposit. The summit of the deposit reaches 700 meters above
the crater floor. Additionally, multiple erosional features can be observed on the surface of the deposit including: staircase weathering,
knobs, and yardangs.

ESO and AIP Sign Agreement to Build 4MOST — English
http://www.aip.de/en/news/press/4most-agreement
23 August 2016. ESO has signed an agreement with a consortium led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) to build 4MOST,
a unique, next-generation spectroscopic instrument, which will be mounted on the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA)
at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. 4MOST, the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope, is expected to collect approximately
75 million spectra over its planned fifteen-year lifetime.

Relative Sizes of the Alpha Centauri Components and other Objects (artist’s impression) | ESO
https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0307b/

Press Conference at ESO HQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5QkN05xodA

Exactly how unusual is our Solar System? | PLANETPLANET
https://planetplanet.net/2016/07/12/exactly-how-unusual-is-our-solar-system/
Our Sun is a G star. There are 20 G stars within 30 light years out of almost 400 total stars. The vast majority of stars are M stars,
also known as “red dwarfs”. These small red stars have much longer lifetimes than G stars but shine much fainter. Among nearby stars,
the Sun is modestly weird. If give our definition of a “Sun-like” star some latitude, our star ends up being rare at the 10% level.