http://futurism.com/new-research-suggests-dark-energy-might-be-the-reason-for-times-arrow/
A new study may have found a link between dark energy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics—
suggesting that the very expansion of the universe may impart a direction to time.

Fate of Universe explained through basic Laws of Thermodynamics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1JknKr99_4

The rise and fall of galaxy formation | Carnegie Institution for Science
https://carnegiescience.edu/node/2083
An international team of astronomers, including Carnegie’s Eric Persson, has charted the rise and fall of galaxies over 90 percent of cosmic history.
Their work, which includes some of the most sensitive astronomical measurements made to date, is published by The Astrophysical Journal.
The FourStar Galaxy Evolution Survey (ZFOURGE) has built a multicolored photo album of galaxies as they grow from their faint beginnings into mature
and majestic giants. They did so by measuring distances and brightnesses for more than 70,000 galaxies spanning more than 12 billion years of cosmic
time, revealing the breadth of galactic diversity.

Neat lines of craters etched on the moon's surface, which can't be explained by the red planet's tidal tug,
could have grown in a collision chain reaction.
Martian moon Phobos' grooves caused by collision debris | Cosmos
https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/martian-moon-phobos-grooves-caused-by-collision-debris

The most powerful laser guide star system in the world sees first light at the Paranal Observatory | ESO
http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1613h/

Three concentric supernova remnants found in nearby galaxy.
http://www.slate.com/...y/2016/08/30/three_concentric_supernova_remnants_found_in_nearby_galaxy.html
Astronomers have found the expanding debris from not one, but three previously unknown supernovae. Better yet: The spherical shells of gas hurled outward
by these explosions are concentric, centered on the same point in space, which means all three stars were very close to each other when they let go.

This weird triple supernova was found using a technique that specifically looks for rapidly moving gas. It involves a special kind of spectrograph that
breaks the incoming light for the sky into very narrow slices of color. The resulting spectrum can reveal a lot of information about an object, including
its composition, speed through space, and more.

Powerful magnetars may give way to small black holes | Astronomy.com
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/08/powerful-magnetars-may-have-given-way-to-small-black-holes
The strongest magnets in the universe may have a shorter-than-expected shelf life.

Chandra :: Photo Album :: CL J1001 :: August 30, 2016
http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2016/clj1001/
This image contains the most distant galaxy cluster, a discovery made using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory
and several other telescopes. The galaxy cluster, known as CL J1001+0220, is located about 11.1 billion light years from
Earth and may have been caught right after birth, a brief, but important stage of cluster evolution never seen before.

Animation of Sept. 1 Space Station Spacewalk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02TYu73B3jc

Franck Marchis on SETI signal:
Let’s be careful about this “SETI” signal | Franck Marchis Blog
http://cosmicdiary.org/fmarchis/2016/08/29/lets-be-careful-about-this-seti-signal/

Observing the latest star of interest - HD164595 - with the Allen Telescope Array:

Probe hoisted aboard launcher to leave Earth next week on asteroid adventure – Spaceflight Now
https://spaceflightnow.com/...oisted-aboard-launcher-to-leave-earth-next-week-on-asteroid-adventure/

Today in 1992 the 1st KBO beyond Pluto was discovered:
http://www.astronomy.com/.../06/1992-qb1-the-first-kuiper-belt-object-opened-a-realm-of-1000-plutos

VIRGO: Another closer look to the IRAS 19312+1950 by ESA’s Herschel space observatory.
Space in Images - 2016 - 08 - Not your typical protostar
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/08/Not_your_typical_protostar

Cameras of the Outer Solar System - a simple chart comparing the cameras taken by spacecraft to the outer solar system. Fun facts included! By Philip Terry Graham.

Search for Planet Nine turns up three mini-worlds
http://www.geekwire.com/2016/search-planet-nine-turns-three-mini-planets/
The list includes these mini-worlds:

2014 SR349, which is in the kind of extreme orbit that could hypothetically have been perturbed by Planet Nine.

2013 FT28, which isn’t quite as much in the sweet spot for Planet Nine action, dynamically speaking.

2014 FE72, which is said to be the first identified object from the faraway Oort Cloud with an orbit entirely beyond Neptune. The orbit
is stretched out far enough to take it more than 3,000 times farther away from the sun than Earth is. The astronomers say its orbital
path seems likely to be influenced by gravitational forces beyond the solar system, such as passing stars or the galactic tide.

Cassini: Mission to Saturn: Map of Titan with Labeled Features
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7492/
This map of Titan shows the names of many (but not all) features on the Saturnian moon that have been approved by the IAU.
The map shows Cassini imaging coverage of Titan as of June 2015. This map was produced by the USGS Astrogeology Science Center
for the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature.
Catalog Page for PIA20713
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20713