NASA's Juno to Soar Closest to Jupiter This Saturday
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-juno-to-soar-closest-to-jupiter-this-saturday
This Saturday at 5:51 a.m. PDT, (8:51 a.m. EDT, 12:51 UTC) NASA's Juno spacecraft will get closer to the cloud tops of Jupiter than at any other time
during its prime mission. At the moment of closest approach, Juno will be about 2,500 miles (4,200 kilometers) above Jupiter's swirling clouds and
traveling at 130,000 mph (208,000 kilometers per hour) with respect to the planet. There are 35 more close flybys of Jupiter scheduled during its prime
mission (scheduled to end in February of 2018). The Aug. 27 flyby will be the first time Juno will have its entire suite of science instruments activated
and looking at the giant planet as the spacecraft zooms past.

Going Interstellar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDuAiA6kX0

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
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... ;-)