News | Spitzer Space Telescope Begins 'Beyond' Phase
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2016-221&rn=news.xml&rst=6602
Celebrating the spacecraft's ability to push the boundaries of space science and technology, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope team has dubbed the next phase of its journey "Beyond."

"Spitzer is operating well beyond the limits that were set for it at the beginning of the mission," said Michael Werner, the project scientist for Spitzer at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "We never envisioned operating 13 years after launch, and scientists are making discoveries in areas of science we never imagined exploring with
the spacecraft." NASA recently granted the spacecraft a two-and-a-half-year mission extension. This Beyond phase of the Spitzer mission will explore a wide range of topics in
astronomy and cosmology, as well as planetary bodies in and out of our solar system.

The devastation of the Italy earthquake in Pescara del Tronto from Deimos2 satellite

YaleNews | A better way to learn if alien planets have the right stuff
http://news.yale.edu/2016/08/24/better-way-learn-if-alien-planets-have-right-stuff
A new method for analyzing the chemical composition of stars may help scientists winnow the search for Earth 2.0.

Yale University researchers Debra Fischer and John Michael Brewer, in a new study that will appear in the Astrophysical Journal, describe
a computational modeling technique that gives a clearer sense of the chemistry of stars, revealing the conditions present when their planets
formed. The system creates a new way to assess the habitability and biological evolution possibilities of planets outside our solar system.

“This is a very useful, easy diagnostic to tell whether that pale blue dot you see is more similar to Venus or the Earth,” said Fischer,
a Yale professor of astronomy. “Our field is very focused on finding Earth 2.0, and anything we can do to narrow the search is helpful.”

Lead author Brewer, a postdoctoral researcher at Yale, has used the technique previously to determine temperature, surface gravity, rotational
speed, and chemical composition information for 1,600 stars, based on 15 elements found within those stars. The new study looks at roughly 800
stars, focusing on their ratio of carbon to oxygen, and magnesium to silicon.

Giant Magellan Telescope
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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.